We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Smoothwall Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"It is a safe product."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"It was easy to initially deploy it."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"An area for improvement in OPNsense is the hardware, which needs to be updated more frequently. DNS blocking is another good feature I want to be added to the solution. pfSense has a peer-blocking feature that I also want to see in OPNsense."
"The reporting part could be better."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"There is room for improvement in the UI. They can improve it by making it so that everything is in one place, so we don't have to jump around to different pages."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Smoothwall Firewall is ranked 34th in Firewalls with 1 review. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Smoothwall Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Smoothwall Firewall writes "Offers good scalability and monitoring features ". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Smoothwall Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense.
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