KerioControl

Kommentare: I've been using Kerio since was named "WinRoute firewall" running on windows. Now it is called Control and is just for Linux (an entire distro bundle). I used for small customers and then 14 years ago start working for the Argentinian's Government, I took my fan for Kerio there and Implement that solution for 7 buildings and more than 600+ network devices. 14 years later still using it. Any new need that involves some networking we could easily implement with no any new software. People traveling can easy access to internal applications via VPN. On the primary building, we have a kerio server with 8 nics, guest wifis, private wifi, 3 internet connection, TLS with other building, LAN and DMZ, all with a quad core with 4 GB rams, working flawlessly. For far kerio control was the best app for syusadmin that I never used. Made make day to day work enjoyable.

Kommentare: I have used it for some of my clients for several years. It is easy to use solution and supports the vast majority of your needs from a firewall and Internet sharing software.

Vorteile: I have learned Kerio Control myself easily. Traffic rules work very well. Reverse Proxy is a useful facility. Internet Usage Reports are approximately perfect. I love the feature that I can limit the Internet speed of users after using their quota. It needs the minimum hardware resources and by using a virtual appliance, Installation is easy.
Integration with Microsoft Active Directory is very nice and perfect. Meanwhile, defining users out of Active Directory is possible. limiting users to different time intervals is also a very good feature. for example, I have limited a user to use the Internet at nights just to update my servers when other users are not using the Internet.

Nachteile: Kerio VPN Client is not completely bug-free! Sometimes, it can not be connected to server without any specific reason. Load Balancing does not work very well.
Kerio Control reduces the speed of the internet when there are too many traffic rules.

Kommentare: It has been our firewall in our company for 10 years

Vorteile: 1- Easy to learn and setup and it's really user-friendly
2-Very good integration with Microsoft Active Directory
3-Good Internet usage report.
4-Mac Filter is really good
5-Defining Traffic Rules is perfect and easy.
6-Supporting reverse proxy server is a very good facility.

Nachteile: 1-load balancing doesn't work properly most of the times. even when you set connectivity weights.
2-It's a little bit slower than some other solutions such as Mikrotik
3-without it's own specific VPN client (and other VPN connections), users sometimes are not distinguishable by this software and sometimes the traffic rules can be bypassed. for example, we have set that only authenticated users can use the Internet, but a VPN service such as PrivateTunnel can connect to the internet without login to Kerio control, bypass the rules and connect to Internet!

Kommentare: The antivirus, peer to peer, and alerts work very well. Customer service is good when they know how to solve a problem. If they don't expect to be passed back and forth between agents until your case escalated. They will do a remote session to see if a senior agent/manager can figure it out. If they can't then you are pretty much out of luck. In my case anyway. Also if you you ask them to show you how something works that can be hit or miss. Sometimes their agents are happy to help you. Sometimes they act like you are dumb for not figuring it out.

Vorteile: It is fairly easy to use once you get the interface down. Also when you make changes it happens pretty quick and stays how you changed it. You really wont get any surprises that come out of no where really.

Nachteile: If you do have a problem it can be hard/impossible to narrow it down. I have had several issues that I spoke with support with (through email and phone) that they werent able to figure out. Like hours on the phone, dozens of emails. And they just wouldn't know. I dont expect them to know everything but they were just so baffled by some stuff. So I just learned to live with the problem. Like the IPS in Kerio really slows down our internet speed. Spoke with many people about it. Took months and finally after they couldnt they said we dont support your hardware anymore. Why didnt they tell me that just right out of the gate. It was very frustrating

Kommentare: Overall satisfied, does its job well.

Vorteile: Really nice and easy to understand interface. Pretty stable, reasonable price. Support is good aswell. Good option for small to medium business.

Nachteile: Lacks features and options, like automatic IP blocking or allowing to create custom IP / port rules with the country lists it already has (now only allow to select countries to deny access to all IP and ports).