<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Julius,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I prefer to use a firewall distro that could secure the entire network like pfsense, opnsense, ipfire, etc.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I personally feel that UFW, shorewall and CSF are too basic and they are host-based solutions, that is, they can only secure the computers they are installed on, not the entire network.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regards,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Targeted Individual in Singapore</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div> <div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"> </div> <div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton"><br></div> </div> <div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div class="protonmail_quote"> On Monday, February 19th, 2024 at 11:56 PM, Julius ter Pelkwijk <pelkwijk@gmail.com> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hey,<br><br>As someone who works a lot with AI, I have to say that chatGPT relies on what it can find on the internet. The first page I found was from pfsense, claiming it to be the "world's most trusted open source firewall". The Dutch call this a "wij van wc-eend", a phrase made by a company to claim that their product is the best.<div><br></div><div>I tend to use UFW, but I know people who use Shorewall and CSF. Its a case of "preference" and what you want to use the firewall for.</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings,<br><br>Julius</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 3:54 PM Klaas Tammling <klaas@tammling.hamburg> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="msg-4656134274064377344"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi,<br> <br> I mean just from a quick search there are a bunch of great opensource firewalls. Some more popular than others, depending on the use case.<br> <br> The first one which would come into my mind is OPNSense, a fork of pfsense. I use it myself and it works great.<br> <br> Another one could be IPFire and IPCop.<br> <br> This site is in German but it lists a few, you could evaluate if you search for something new (not affiliated with that site): <a target="_blank" id="m_-4656134274064377344LPlnk" href="https://aware7.com/de/blog/die-12-besten-open-source-firewalls/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"> https://aware7.com/de/blog/die-12-besten-open-source-firewalls/</a></span></div> <div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All the best,<br> <br> Klaas</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </span></div> <div id="m_-4656134274064377344appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%"> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-4656134274064377344divRplyFwdMsg"><font style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Von:</b> opensource-wg <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg-bounces@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg-bounces@ripe.net</a>> im Auftrag von Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via opensource-wg <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg@ripe.net</a>><br> <b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 19. Februar 2024 15:33<br> <b>An:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg@ripe.net</a> <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg@ripe.net</a>><br> <b>Cc:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:ceo@teo-en-ming-corp.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">ceo@teo-en-ming-corp.com</a> <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:ceo@teo-en-ming-corp.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">ceo@teo-en-ming-corp.com</a>><br> <b>Betreff:</b> [opensource-wg] Most popular open source firewall in the world</font> <div> </div> </div> <div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"> <div>Subject: Most popular open source firewall in the world<br> <br> Good day from Singapore,<br> <br> I am using pfsense community edition 2.7.2 firewall at home.<br> <br> Recently I asked ChatGPT. ChatGPT says pfsense is the singular most popular open source firewall in the world.<br> <br> Is pfsense really the most popular open source firewall in the world?<br> If there is more than one, please provide a list of the most popular open source firewall(s) in the world as well.<br> Preferably from well accredited sources.<br> <br> Thank you.<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming<br> Targeted Individual in Singapore<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> opensource-wg mailing list<br> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg@ripe.net</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="https://mailman.ripe.net/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><br> <br> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: <a target="_blank" href="https://mailman.ripe.net/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><br> </div> </span></font></div> </div> _______________________________________________<br> opensource-wg mailing list<br> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:opensource-wg@ripe.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">opensource-wg@ripe.net</a><br> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://mailman.ripe.net/">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><br> <br> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://mailman.ripe.net/">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><br> </div></blockquote></div> </blockquote><br> </div>