| Comparison of Endian Firewall Editions |
Hardware Appliances |
Software Appliances |
| General |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Open Source License (GPL) |
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| Free download |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Suggested number of users (not limited) |
N/A |
<25 |
<100 |
<250 |
250+ |
5-10 |
25+ |
| Commercial support options |
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| Ticket System Support |
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| Direct support from Endian |
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| Phone Support |
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| Live/Remote Support (hands on) |
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| Instant Hardware Replacement |
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| Industrial Grade Hardware |
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N/A |
N/A |
| LCD display with system status and management functionality |
N/A |
N/A |
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N/A |
N/A |
| Network Security |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Stateful Packet Firewall |
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| Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) |
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| Intrusion Detection (Snort) |
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| Multiple Public IPs |
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| Traffic Shaping |
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| VoIP/SIP support |
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| Portscan Detection |
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| DoS and DDoS Protection |
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| SYN/ICMP Flood Protection |
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| Anti-Spoofing Protection |
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| VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking) - New |
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| DNS Proxy/Routing - New |
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| Web Security |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| HTTP & FTP proxies |
N/A |
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| Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns) |
N/A |
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| Transparent Proxy support |
N/A |
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| Content Analysis/Filtering |
N/A |
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| URL Blacklist |
N/A |
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| Authentication: Local, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory |
N/A |
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| NTLM Single Sign-On |
N/A |
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| Group based web access policies - New |
N/A |
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| Time based access control with multiple time intervals - New |
N/A |
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| Mail Security |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| SMTP & POP3 proxies |
N/A |
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| Anti-spam with Bayes, Pattern, SPF, |
N/A |
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| Heuristics, Black- and White-lists support |
N/A |
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| Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns) |
N/A |
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| Transparent Proxy support |
N/A |
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| Spam Auto-Learning |
N/A |
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| Transparent Mail Forwarding (BCC) |
N/A |
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| Greylisting |
N/A |
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| Virtual Private Networks (VPN) |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| True SSL/TLS VPN (OpenVPN) |
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| IPSEC |
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| Encryption; DES, 3DES, AES 128-,192-, 256-bit |
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| Authentication: Pre-Shared Key, Certification Authority, Local |
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| Support for VPN over HTTPS
Proxy (OpenVPN) - New |
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| X.509 and 2 factor based authentication - New |
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| PPTP Passthrough |
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| Pushing of DNS settings and Routes to clients (OpenVPN) - New |
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| Automatic connection failover (OpenVPN) - New |
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| Native VPN Client for MS Windows, MacOSX and Linux |
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| Hotspot |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Captive Portal |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Wired/Wireless support |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Pre-/Post-paid and free Tickets |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Integrated RADIUS service |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Connection Logging |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| No additional software/hardware required |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Per-user and global bandwidth limiting - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| MAC-address based user accounts - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| User accounts import/export per CSV - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Single-click ticket generation (Quick ticket) - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Automatic client network configuration (support for DHCP and static IP) - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Generic JSON-API for external accounting and third party integration - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| High Availability |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Hot Standby (active/passive) - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Node Data/Configuration - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Synchronization - New |
N/A |
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N/A |
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| Multi-WAN with Failover |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Support for multiple Uplinks/WANs - New |
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| Automatic WAN Uplink Failover - New |
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| Monitoring of WAN Uplinks - New |
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| Uplink types: Ethernet (Static/DHCP), PPPoE, ADSL, ISDN, PPTP |
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| UMTS/GPRS/3G support - New |
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| Routing |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Static Routes |
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| Source-based Routing |
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| Destination-based Routing |
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| Policy-based Routing (based on interface, mac, protocol or port) - New |
N/A |
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| Network Address Translation (NAT) |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Static NAT (Port Translation) |
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| One-to-One NAT |
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| Source NAT (SNAT) - New |
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| IPSec NAT Traversal |
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| Logging/Reporting |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Live Log Viewer (AJAX based) - New |
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| Detailed User Based Web Access Report |
N/A |
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| Network/System/Performance Statistics |
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| Rule-based logging settings (Firewall Rules) - New |
N/A |
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| Syslog: Local or Remote |
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| Management |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Easy Web-based Administration (SSL) |
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| Secure Remote SSH/SCP Access |
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| Serial Console |
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| Centralized Management through Endian Network (SSL) |
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| Updates and Backup |
4i Office / Industrial |
Mini |
Mercury |
Macro |
Macro X2 |
5-10 Users |
25+ Users |
| Backup/Restore Firewall settings from Web-Interface |
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| Centralized Updates through Endian Network |
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| Anti-virus Definitions |
N/A |
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| URL Blacklist Definitions |
N/A |
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| Scheduled Automatic Backup |
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| Encrypted Backups via E-mail - New |
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| Instant Recovery/Backup to USB-Stick - New |
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