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Hello. I am interested in Sophos for home use and I have some questions.
Can the home edition use more than 2 network interfaces?
Is the home edition limited in what network inteface chips/cards it can use?
Is there a way around the 4 core & 6 gig limitation as I would like to use a more robust system?
What anti-virus engine does it use?
Can one buy a used Sophos appliance and install the Firewall Home edition onto it?
Is the home edition a full blown software solution that would be as powerful as if one were to purchase an appliance that came with the software for business?
Anything else you can tell me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Just to be clear Sophos UTM is a Linux OS install, it has nothing to do with Windows firewall. Its running as a standalone appliance on its own hardware. Home UTM is just for home use, limited to 50 IPs with all the features ON, Essential Firewall is the “free for business use” firewall element of the UTM. Same thing Linux install on hardware or a VM.
So all you need is the Home UTM product running on a PC with dual NIC. You are wasting your money on an SSD here as most consumer SSDs aren’t suited to the read/write pattern on a UTM device, only do this if noise is an issue but a spinning disk is probably better in this setup. An SSD will have zero impact on performance
Be careful which PCI card you get, not all are supported. An intel one is your best bet. Realtek if you are on a budget
There is a huge amount of information on astaro.org the community forum including guides to build hardware, supported devices and advice on setup
Hey Everybody,
I am looking to set up a machine running Sophos UTM Home Edition and Sophos UTM Essential Firewall at my home and was looking for some advice/guidance on how best to do this. Just to give you an idea as to what systems would be involved, I currently have 2 computers (soon there will be a 3rd), 2 tablets, 2 smartphones, and 3 gaming/multimedia units that all would go through this to the internet. It isn’t a rush, as this is just a project to get done as time is available. I am likely going to be using an old computer from work that would otherwise be recycled and I guess my first question that needs answered is can both of these be installed on the same machine, is that the best way to go, or should I use two computers running them separately?
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