The power of choice...

No matter if you are a developer, network specialist, large business or home user, there's an Endian Firewall for everyone. Just take the choice: Community or Appliance

Community: Developers or early-adopters with non-critical environments

Appliance: Businesses or professionals with critical environments

Comparison of Endian Firewall Editions		Hardware Appliances				Software Appliances
General	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Open Source License (GPL)
Free download		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Suggested number of users (not limited)	N/A	<25	<100	<250	250+	5-10	25+
Commercial support options	N/A
Ticket System Support	N/A
Direct support from Endian	N/A
Phone Support	N/A
Live/Remote Support (hands on)	N/A
Instant Hardware Replacement	N/A
Industrial Grade Hardware	N/A					N/A	N/A
LCD display with system status and management functionality	N/A	N/A				N/A	N/A
Network Security	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Stateful Packet Firewall
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Intrusion Detection (Snort)
Multiple Public IPs
Traffic Shaping
VoIP/SIP support
Portscan Detection
DoS and DDoS Protection
SYN/ICMP Flood Protection
Anti-Spoofing Protection
VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking) - New	N/A
DNS Proxy/Routing - New
Web Security	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
HTTP & FTP proxies
Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns)
Transparent Proxy support
Content Analisys/Filtering
URL Blacklist
Authentication: Local, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory
NTLM Single Sign-On
Group based web access policies - New	N/A
Time based access control with multiple time intervals - New	N/A
Mail Security	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
SMTP & POP3 proxies
Anti-spam with Bayes, Pattern, SPF,
Heuristics, Black- and White-lists support
Anti-virus (100.000+ patterns)
Transparent Proxy support
Spam Auto-Learning
Transparent Mail Forwarding (BCC)
Greylisting
Virtual Private Networks (VPN)	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
True SSL/TLS VPN (OpenVPN)
IPSEC
Encryption; DES, 3DES, AES 128-,192-, 256-bit
Authentication: Pre-Shared Key, Certification Authority, Local
X.509 and 2 factor based authentication - New
PPTP Passthrough
Pushing of DNS settings and Routes to clients (OpenVPN) - New
Support for VPN over HTTPS Proxy (OpenVPN) - New
Automatic connection failover (OpenVPN) - New
Native VPN Client for MS Windows, MacOSX and Linux	N/A
Hotspot	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Captive Portal	N/A					N/A
Wired/Wireless support	N/A					N/A
Pre-/Post-paid and free Tickets	N/A					N/A
Integrated RADIUS service	N/A					N/A
Connection Logging	N/A					N/A
No additional software/hardware required	N/A					N/A
Per-user and global bandwidth limiting - New	N/A					N/A
MAC-address based user accounts - New	N/A					N/A
User accounts import/export per CSV - New	N/A					N/A
Single-click ticket generation (Quick ticket) - New	N/A					N/A
Automatic client network configuration (support for DHCP and static IP) - New	N/A					N/A
Generic JSON-API for external accounting and third party integration - New	N/A					N/A
High Availability	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Multi-Node Appliance Cluster - New	N/A					N/A
Hot Standby (active/passive) - New	N/A					N/A
Node Data/Configuration - New	N/A					N/A
Synchronization - New	N/A					N/A
Multi-WAN with Failover	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Support for multiple Uplinks/WANs - New
Automatic WAN Uplink Failover - New
Monitoring of WAN Uplinks - New
Uplink types: Ethernet (Static/DHCP), PPPoE, ADSL, ISDN, PPTP
UMTS/GPRS/3G support - New	N/A
Routing	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Static Routes
Source-based Routing
Destination-based Routing
Policy-based Routing (based on interface, mac, protocol or port) - New	N/A
Network Address Translation (NAT)	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Static NAT (Port Translation)
One-to-One NAT
Source NAT (SNAT) - New
IPSec NAT Traversal
Logging/Reporting	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Live Log Viewer (AJAX based) - New	N/A
Detailed User Based Web Access Report	N/A
Network/System/Performance Statistics
Rule-based logging settings (Firewall Rules) - New
Syslog: Local or Remote
Management	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Easy Web-based Administration (SSL)
Secure Remote SSH/SCP Access
Serial Console
Centralized Management through Endian Network (SSL)	N/A
Updates and Backup	Community	Mini	Mercury	Macro	Macro X2	5-10 Users	25+ Users
Backup/Restore Firewall settings from Web-Interface
Centralized Updates through Endian Network	N/A
Anti-virus Definitions
URL Blacklist Definitions	N/A
Scheduled Automatic Backup	N/A
Encrypted Backups via E-mail - New	N/A
Instant Recovery/Backup to USB-Stick - New	N/A

= Yes, = Optional, N/A = Not available

How do i calculate the number of Users?

• Endian Firewall Community has no user limitation at all, it only depends on the performance of the hardware it runs on. Although we recommend to use Endian Firewall Community only in small network environments that aren't critical for your business, due to the lack of professional support and centralized updates.
• Endian Firewall Hardware Appliances (Mini, Mercury, Macro, Macro X2) have no limitation of the number of Users or IPs. They can be used with any number of Users/PCs/IPs, the limitation is only given by the performance of the hardware. For each Hardware Appliance there is a number of "suggested Users" that can be used as a reference. Performance will vary depending on network environment and configuration (activated proxies, VPN connections, IDS and Application Level Filters).
• Endian Firewall Software Appliances have a licensing based on the number of Users in your network. "Users" includes workstations, clients, servers and devices that communicate through the firewall to reach the Internet. It also includes VPN connections from remote VPN clients ("road warriors") and from remote VPN gateways (each remote gateway counts as one user). The number of Users is monitored but not limited. If your network exceeds the number of Users the Software Appliance will continue to work, but you'll be notified that the maintenance subscription needs to be upgraded and aligned with the new number of Users. If the number of Users is exceeded for more than one month the maintenance subscription will be suspended, disabling access to Endian Network, Updates and Endian support services.