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Software Appliance

Developed with the open source community support, targeted to developers and early-adopters for non-critical computing environments or private use. Support from Endian is not available, support is provided only by the Open Souce Community through Forums and Mailing-lists.
 

Hardware Appliance

Suitable for the businesses from small to large that require a stable, supported and certified product for professional and critical environments. Endian Firewall UTM Appliances are extensively supported by Endian through a worldwide network of Certified Partners.
Community: Developers or early-adopters with non-critical environments Appliance: Businesses or professionals with critical environments

Endian Feature list

  Hardware Appliances Software Appliances
General 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Open Source License (GPL)
Free download N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Suggested number of users (not limited) N/A <25 <100 <250 250+ 5-10 25+
Commercial support options
Ticket System Support
Direct support from Endian
Phone Support
Live/Remote Support (hands on)
Instant Hardware Replacement
Industrial Grade Hardware N/A N/A
LCD display with system status and management functionality N/A N/A N/A N/A
Network Security 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Stateful Packet Firewall
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Intrusion Prevention (Snort) - NEW
Multiple Public IPs
Quality of Service and Bandwidth Management - NEW
SNMP support - NEW
VoIP/SIP support
Portscan Detection
DoS and DDoS Protection
SYN/ICMP Flood Protection
Anti-Spoofing Protection
VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking)
DNS Proxy/Routing
Web Security 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
HTTP & FTP proxies N/A
Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns) N/A
Transparent Proxy support N/A
Content Analysis/Filtering N/A
URL Blacklist N/A
Authentication: Local, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory N/A
NTLM Single Sign-On N/A
Group based web content filter - NEW N/A
Group based web access policies N/A
Time based access control with multiple time intervals N/A
Sophos Antivirus (optional) - NEW N/A
Mail Security - REVISED 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
SMTP & POP3 proxies N/A
Anti-spam with Bayes, Pattern, SPF, N/A
Heuristics, Black- and White-lists support N/A
Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns) N/A
Transparent Proxy support N/A
Spam Auto-Learning N/A
Transparent Mail Forwarding (BCC) N/A
Greylisting N/A
Commtouch RPD (optional) - NEW N/A
Sophos Antivirus (optional) - NEW N/A
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
True SSL/TLS VPN (OpenVPN)
IPSEC
Encryption; DES, 3DES, AES 128-,192-, 256-bit
Authentication: Pre-Shared Key, Certification Authority, Local
Support for VPN over 
HTTPS Proxy (OpenVPN)
X.509 and 2 factor based authentication
PPTP Passthrough
Pushing of DNS settings and Routes to clients (OpenVPN)
Automatic connection failover (OpenVPN)
Native VPN Client for MS Windows, MacOSX and Linux
Hotspot 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Captive Portal N/A N/A
Wired/Wireless support N/A N/A
Pre-/Post-paid and free Tickets N/A N/A
Traffic-based Tickets - NEW N/A N/A
Integrated RADIUS service N/A N/A
Connection Logging N/A N/A
No additional software/hardware required N/A N/A
Per-user and global bandwidth limiting N/A N/A
MAC-address based user accounts N/A N/A
User accounts import/export per CSV N/A N/A
Single-click ticket generation (Quick ticket) N/A N/A
Automatic client network configuration (support for DHCP and static IP) N/A N/A
Generic JSON-API for external accounting and third party integration N/A N/A
High Availability 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Hot Standby (active/passive) N/A N/A
Node Data/Configuration N/A N/A
Synchronization N/A N/A
Multi-WAN with Failover 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Support for multiple Uplinks/WANs
Automatic WAN Uplink Failover
Monitoring of WAN Uplinks
Uplink types: Ethernet (Static/DHCP), PPPoE, ADSL, ISDN, PPTP
UMTS/GPRS/3G support
Routing 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Static Routes
Source-based Routing
Destination-based Routing
Policy-based Routing (based on interface, mac, protocol or port)
Network Address Translation (NAT) 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Destination NAT - NEW
Incoming Routed Traffic - NEW
One-to-One NAT
Source NAT (SNAT)
IPSec NAT Traversal
Logging/Reporting 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Real-time Dashboard - NEW
Event handling and notification - NEW
Live Log Viewer (AJAX based)
Detailed User Based Web Access Report N/A
Network/System/Performance Statistics
Rule-based logging settings (Firewall Rules)
Syslog: Local or Remote
Management 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Easy Web-based Administration (SSL)
Secure Remote SSH/SCP Access
Serial Console
Centralized Management through Endian Network (SSL)
Updates and Backup 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Backup/Restore Firewall settings from Web-Interface
Centralized Updates through Endian Network
Anti-virus Definitions N/A
URL Blacklist Definitions N/A
Scheduled Automatic Backup
Encrypted Backups via E-mail
Instant Recovery/Backup to USB-Stick
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How do i calculate the number of Users?
  • Endian Firewall Community has no user limitation at all, it only depends on the performance of the hardware it runs on. Although we recommend to use Endian Firewall Community only in small network environments that aren't critical for your business, due to the lack of professional support and centralized updates.
  • Endian Firewall Hardware Appliances (Mini, Mercury, Macro, Macro X2) have no limitation of the number of Users or IPs. They can be used with any number of Users/PCs/IPs, the limitation is only given by the performance of the hardware. For each Hardware Appliance there is a number of "suggested Users" that can be used as a reference. Performance will vary depending on network environment and configuration (activated proxies, VPN connections, IDS and Application Level Filters).
  • Endian Firewall Software Appliances have a licensing based on the number of Users in your network. "Users" includes workstations, clients, servers and devices that communicate through the firewall to reach the Internet. It also includes VPN connections from remote VPN clients ("road warriors") and from remote VPN gateways (each remote gateway counts as one user). The number of Users is monitored but not limited. If your network exceeds the number of Users the Software Appliance will continue to work, but you'll be notified that the maintenance subscription needs to be upgraded and aligned with the new number of Users. If the number of Users is exceeded for more than one month the maintenance subscription will be suspended, disabling access to Endian Network, Updates and Endian support services.
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