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XG firewall, can't say I'm impressed

Sci-Tek

Attempted today to swith out the old UTM with XG firewall (home use). Been using this product since Astaro 4.7 (I think), and loved it since day one.

And I can't really say I'm impressed with XG firewall. The GUI is messy while im sure the touch fanboys will love it, personally I hate it. 

There don't seem to be a option to see live log. It could be that I didn't look good enough tho. 
Country blocking, couldn't get it to work. Don't know if it was even supposed to work. 
Specifying FW rules was horrible. I think I actually prefer Windows firewall rule adding to this. 

Reporting was powerfull and I can see thats a improved area.

Unfortunatley the XG firewall named Batman was decapitaed and nuked from orbit. Atleast I tried and wanted to like it.



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    I agree here, I'm not impressed either... What did they do with all the features from UTM9?
    It looks like a complete different product. No clone option anymore, No SMTP profiles, no live log etc. etc... Do we really need to fill out feature requests for all these features again?
    I'm a huge fan of UTM 9! And I really hoped Sophos would build an even better successor, but as far as I can see now it's just an incomplete (I wanted to use "crippled", but that might not be the correct word, because when a basic firewall was the end goal, they did a nice job...) little brother of UTM 9... I'll stay with UTM 9 if this is it.
    I hope they don't stop the development on UTM 9, but I hold my breath...
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    I agree here, I'm not impressed either... What did they do with all the features from UTM9?
    It looks like a complete different product. No clone option anymore, No SMTP profiles, no live log etc. etc... Do we really need to fill out feature requests for all these features again?
    I'm a huge fan of UTM 9! And I really hoped Sophos would build an even better successor, but as far as I can see now it's just an incomplete (I wanted to use "crippled", but that might not be the correct word, because when a basic firewall was the end goal, they did a nice job...) little brother of UTM 9... I'll stay with UTM 9 if this is it.
    I hope they don't stop the development on UTM 9, but I hold my breath...
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  • 0 in reply to ehofstede

    Unknown said:

    I hope they don't stop the development on UTM 9, but I hold my breath...

    In the past week, I've had 3 UTM feature requests closed to "This feature is completed as part of XG Firewall that has been released on November 9th 2015."  It is becoming very clear that while UTM may continue to be "supported" in the near term, new features are probably going to be limited to conversion utilities to "upgrade" to XG.

    The marketplace will be voting with their $$$ as to XG's acceptance.  From what I've seen so far, it's not going to be pretty.

    I think somebody forgot that "you only have one chance to make a first impression".  Compared to UTM, XG is woefully feature incomplete.  Potential customers having a first look may pass and not return for some time.

  • 0 in reply to DavidWilliams1
    I and a co-worker manage the UTM9 for our school district and when I showed him the new "XG" product yesterday he asked me " What did they do to it? ". Reminds me of the South Park episode where the boys are upset about the last Indiana Jones movie ( Season 12, Episode 8 ).

    I am trying to like this thing, but it just isn't happening. NOTHING is the same as the UTM. It looks like the whole reason for acquiring the UTM from Astaro was to kill the competition.

    I will stay with the UTM software at school until it just becomes too full of security holes to justify it's use. What does it say when they release a "replacement" product but have no plans for current customers to import their old configurations into the new device until the summer of 2016? That's almost 7 months after the product launched.

    I have 13 years of blood/sweat and tears invested in my current configuration of this UTM software. I'll retire before I manually enter all that configuration again. Heck, I couldn't even if I wanted to because I can't make any sense of the interface of this thing.

    Please, as a gesture of Holiday Spirit and general Good Will, return the rights to the ASG to the guys in Karlsruhe so the UTM doesn't have to go out like this.
  • 0 in reply to TXGARobert@Home

    TXGARobert@Home said:
    I and a co-worker manage the UTM9 for our school district and when I showed him the new "XG" product yesterday he asked me " What did they do to it? ". Reminds me of the South Park episode where the boys are upset about the last Indiana Jones movie ( Season 12, Episode 8 ).

    I am trying to like this thing, but it just isn't happening. NOTHING is the same as the UTM. It looks like the whole reason for acquiring the UTM from Astaro was to kill the competition.

    I will stay with the UTM software at school until it just becomes too full of security holes to justify it's use. What does it say when they release a "replacement" product but have no plans for current customers to import their old configurations into the new device until the summer of 2016? That's almost 7 months after the product launched.

    I have 13 years of blood/sweat and tears invested in my current configuration of this UTM software. I'll retire before I manually enter all that configuration again. Heck, I couldn't even if I wanted to because I can't make any sense of the interface of this thing.

    Please, as a gesture of Holiday Spirit and general Good Will, return the rights to the ASG to the guys in Karlsruhe so the UTM doesn't have to go out like this.

    The founders have moved on to ocedo that itself has been sold off.  Astaro is dead now and most of the german devs are also gone.  Hang onto SG as long as they keep it alive....