Endian is a nice *nix based open source firewall appliance which has a free Community Edition (which always is a virtual appliance) and paid (either virtual or physical) edition.
It does a lot of things, including spam filtering, http caching, proxying, VPN, DHCP, routing, et cetera.
Those things are done very well, in a reasonably small footprint:
Registering for their community edition is meant to enable the on-line update mechanism for it.
It is supposed to work like this:
- You enter your email address
- They dispatch a mail to you with a verification link
- Clicking the verification link confirms that email address, and flags it in their database as valid for Endian Community updates
- You enter the same email on your Endian appliance to get updates
But using that registration is hard: their registration mechanism has at least two flaws: Read the rest of this entry »
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