Network Appliances
Hacom offers pre-loaded Network Appliances running a variety of open-source networking software, such as IPCop , pfSense , and m0n0wall. Phoenix, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, More... |  |  |
Comparison between IPCop, pfSense and M0n0Wall
With add-ons, IPCop has more features as a layer-7 router with web and e-mail content management. PfSense has more capability in areas of high availability and load balancing.
| Functionality | IPCOP 1.4.21 | pfSense 1.2 | M0n0wall 1.3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Stateful Inspection Firewall |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
E-mail AntiVirus/AntiSpam |
Yes1 |
No |
No |
|
Web Antivirus (HTTP, FTP) |
Yes1 |
No |
No |
|
Web URL Blacklist |
Yes2 |
No |
No |
|
Web Content Filtering |
Yes2 |
No |
No |
|
IPSec VPN |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
OpenVPN |
Yes3 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
PptP VPN |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Wireless Support/Access Point |
Yes4 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Hotspot/Captive Portal |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
QOS/VoIP Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
High Availibility |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Load Balancing |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Multi-Wan |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Firewall Failover Capability |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Network Address Translation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
1:1 NAT (SNAT) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Port Address Translation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Source Routing |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Policy Routing |
No |
Yes |
No |
Notes:
1 Copfilter add-on (http://www.copfilter.org/)
2 URLfilter and Advanced Procy add-ons
(http://www.urlfilter.net/ and http://www.advproxy.net/)
3 Zerena add-on (http://www.zerina.de/)
4 Wlan-AP add-on (http://www.ban-solms.de/)