Open Source NetBalancer Alternatives

The best open source alternative to NetBalancer is Fort Firewall. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to NetBalancer and three of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to NetBalancer are CacheGuard Gateway and L7 Filter.

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    Fort Firewall

     34 likes

    Simple firewall for MS Windows.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Fort Firewall is the most popular Open Source alternative to NetBalancer.

    • Fort Firewall is Free and Open SourceNetBalancer is Paid and Proprietary
    • Fort Firewall is Lightweight and Privacy focusedNetBalancer is not according to our users
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    CacheGuard Gateway

     6 likes

    CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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    This is an OS, not an application.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • CacheGuard Gateway is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to NetBalancer.

    • CacheGuard Gateway is Free and Open SourceNetBalancer is Paid and Proprietary
    • CacheGuard Gateway is Privacy focused and LightweightNetBalancer is not according to our users
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    L7 Filter

     3 likes

    L7-filter is a classifier for Linuxs Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer data. It can classify packets as Kazaa, HTTP, Jabber, Citrix, BitTorrent, FTP, Gnucleus, eDonkey2000, etc., regardless of port.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

    • L7 Filter is the most popular Linux alternative to NetBalancer.

    • L7 Filter is Free and Open SourceNetBalancer is Paid and Proprietary
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