We performed a comparison between Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"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."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"I haven't seen any feature that will allow me direct authentication for a VPN solution."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
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Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 21 reviews. Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is rated 8.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.2. On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "There are lots of capabilities built-in: Few would be High Availability, Proxy, DNS, Intrusion detection/prevention, content filtering, traffic and bandwidth management with 2factor autn. ". Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is most compared with , whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and WatchGuard Firebox.
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