Secure Your Home Network for Free
Endian Firewall Community
The Endian Firewall Community is a free, open-source solution tailored for home use. It offers essential network security features to protect your digital life, giving you peace of mind without breaking the bank.
Keep your digital life safe and secure
Main Features
The Endian Firewall Community provides all the essential features you need to protect your home network. From secure browsing to advanced threat prevention, each tool is designed to meet your everyday security needs with ease and reliability.
Stateful Firewall
Protect your network from Internet threats while providing appropriate access to resources inside and outside your network.
VPN (SSL & IPSec)
Provide remote access to your family members and connect multiple locations together through our simple and secure VPN tunnel.
Email Security
Eliminate spam, phishing, and other malicious email from your network. Protect your home from all threats affecting email today.
Antivirus
Detect and prevent threats with your free Community Edition software for both web and email traffic. Protect your home network from the latest internet dangers.
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
A powerful shield that protects your network against internal and external threats by analyzing traffic flows.
Multi-WAN (with Failover)
Make your network more reliable by connecting multiple Internet connections. Available in simple failover configuration or simultaneously.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Take control of your network bandwidth utilization and set priorities for critical applications like VoIP, web, email and more.
Reporting
View real-time and historical reports for all your important network traffic including daily, weekly, and month web usage reports.
Explore the Difference: Community Edition vs. Endian UTM
Find the right fit for your needs
Want more advanced features and professional support? Check out our comparison between the Endian UTM and the Endian Firewall Community. Discover which solution is best for you.
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Protect your home network for free.
Get started with the Endian Firewall Community and enjoy robust, open-source security features designed for your home. Download it now and take control of your network’s safety.
Endian Firewall Community Support
Need Help
As a free solution, the Endian Firewall Community does not include professional support. However, you can access a wealth of knowledge and assistance from our dedicated user forum and community documentation.
How to choose the appropriate support
In order to promptly find the solution of your problem, follow these steps:
| Read the Endian Firewall Documentation. |
| Check the Bug tracker known issues. |
| Check for a solution using the below mailing lists. These serve as knowledge bases for many users. |
| You can subscribe to Endian Firewall mailing lists kindly hosted by Sourceforge. |
| You can browse mailing list archives on Sourceforge (efw-user) and Mail-archive (efw-user). |
| Thanks to Gmane, the mailing lists (Gmane info page) are now available as news group gmane.comp.security.firewalls.efw.user (archive) and RSS stream (efw-user). |
| If you did not find a solution, then ask your question on the mailinglist. |
How to ask
If submitting a question to the mailing list, bear in mind that you are relying on the good-will of other community users and not official Endian staff. They are under no obligation to respond to your request, nor does Endian validate support responses.
As a matter of professional courtesy, please exercise decorum when requesting community-supported assistance. We recommend you supply the following:
| Describe the issue in detail. (“It does not work” is not a sufficient description) |
| What changes (if any) were made that may have caused the incident? |
| Provide your exact hardware specifications. |
| What steps did you take to troubleshoot the issue on your own? |
| Which version of Endian CE are you running? |
| Any other info you can provide: log files, outputs generated, etc. |
Access our full Endian documentation
Some features described within the reference manual are not available to the free-to-use Community Version. For a full list of the differences click here.
EFW Community Forums
Just check out the EFW Community Support Forums. Thanks to all to the creators of these sites, we really appreciate your support!
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