Best free Linux firewalls of 2020: go beyond iptables for desktops and servers

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ClearOS Landing Page

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ClearOS

A very good alternative for Windows Server, for free

There are several editions of ClearOS including a community-supported edition that is offered as a no-cost free download. You can use the community edition of ClearOS to roll out all kinds of network services including a firewall, with content filtering and intrusion detection capabilities.

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OPNsense Landing Page
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OPNsense

OPNsense® you next open source firewall. Free Download. High-end Security Made Easy™. Offers Intrusion Prevention, Captive Portal, Traffic Shaping and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
pfSense describes itself as the most trusted open source firewall. The original FreeBSD-based firewall distro, pfSense shares many similarities with OPNsense. For instance, in addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features. To begin with, just like with OPNsense, you can use pfSense to deploy an intrusion prevention system as well as enable VPN access.

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IPFire Landing Page

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IPFire

IPFire is a server distribution with intended to use as a firewall.

IPFire is a Linux-based stateful firewall distro that’s built on top of Netfilter. It began as a fork of the IPCop project, but has since been rewritten based on Linux From Scratch. IPFire can be deployed on a wide variety of hardware, including ARM devices such as the Raspberry Pi.

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pfSense Landing Page
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pfSense

pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more
Pricing:
- Open Source
pfSense describes itself as the most trusted open source firewall. The original FreeBSD-based firewall distro, pfSense shares many similarities with OPNsense. For instance, in addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features. To begin with, just like with OPNsense, you can use pfSense to deploy an intrusion prevention system as well as enable VPN access.

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OpenWrt Landing Page
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OpenWrt

OpenWrt is an open-source firmware based on Linux for wireless routers
Pricing:
- Open Source
It also has a surprisingly decent GUI, and offers a number of optional packages in its repository to allow OpenWRT to be configured in a variety of ways for all kinds of uses. Despite all its flexibility, OpenWRT is still one of the least demanding distros, and is fast to run.

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