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."The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"It was easy to initially deploy it."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The reporting part could be better."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"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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