IPFire

Reader supplied reviews for IPFire Average rating 9.3 from 17 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on IPFire? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 2.29-core1982.27-core1762.25-core1582.23-core1392.21-core1302.19-core1202.17-core992.15-core862.13-core762.11-core652.9-core52 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2.29-core195 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-23 Votes: 0 my preferred firewall/router. Work very well on everything, even as virtual machine on Hyper-V. I did run 4 Ipfire vm on hyper-v for more than 1 year with zero crash. It run rock solid. All the time. There is plenty of options for Intrusion detection. Great firewall logs. Fast and light. Work well with all network adapters. I did try even USB network adapter and no problem at all. The Geo location block is awesome too! I wish they will offer a button to disable the ping response on the red interface. Ipfire is the best choice for my needs. I highly recommended. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.29-core194 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-31 Votes: 0 This software is extremely liar, so it can run on almost any computer with more than 15 years of old age, it is quite safe and stable, in addition to fast. Its greatest virtue in terms of reporting is the amount of information it can provide, from voltages to rpm from fans. Its main application for my sera in home environments and small business. I just realize that it is not suitable for complex networks. Another one I've found is that some updates break the links and certificates of the Vpn. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.29-core193 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-14 Votes: 2 As a novice in the networking field, IPfire has been amazing. The customization is intuitive and I can understand what I’m doing most of the time, allowing me to really absorb knowledge as I go along. I left IPfire to go to the superior (not to me, but per others) pfsense router software, and found it to be sleek, but too granular for me at least for now. IPfire was my first taste of open source routing solutions, and I aim to keep it for a long time, or at least until I am better at this whole networking thing. I like most that it has the capability to run a TOR relay/bridge after a quick download. Hardening with that in mind is a bit much, as placing a relay on your router is a bit more visible than I’d like. But simply having that capability to me is a game changer. I plan to install IPfire on another PC and use it to host my relay and go back to a bulletproof network. I took off one point simply for the lack of community. There are users on the forum and Reddit, but replies are sparse. There is answers to your questions there, but you have to look further in the history to find it. With pfsense, there was much more activity on various forums for support and I really liked that. However it wasn’t enough to keep me there. If you are new to routing OSs or if your someone who has been doing this for year, I highly recommend this OS. Nothing beats free and open source software by a mile. Well okay, maybe Cisco is pretty dope but I’m not paying for all of that. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 17 reader reviews of IPFire...