Untangle gateway continues to impress in open source gateways
Recently, I have been evaluating various gateways for Internet facing devices for the small office or home office (SOHO) over the last few weeks. This functionality in this space continues to impress me, and the best part is that a lot of it is available for free. I am currently working with the Untangle Gateway Platform, and have been quite satisfied with the robust functionality as well as ease of use.
Untangle takes the standard functionality in the open source-based gateway products and does one better on the rest by providing a very intuitive interface to configure for your needs. The approach is simple, provide all of the best open source products for a gateway solution in one place and allow the administrator to select from them to configure the Untangle product as desired. Within Untangle, the virtual rack feature that makes this quite easy to build out the gateway solution. The virtual rack tool allows for features to be dropped into use within the gateway from the available application library. Figure A shows a virtual rack with the web filter and firewall roles ‘dropped’ in for use:
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