It's even worse in the concept of `router == firewall`
If you buy one of the popular firewalls, you need a subscription for it to actually work. Once it's expired, you lost your web filtering and IPS and whatever 'modules' you've subscribed to using.
A 3 year subscription is often as much as the hardware.
It's kind of a waste, it'd be nice if there was a OpenWRT style firmware you could load on all the old Fortinet, Watchguard, Sophos, etc firewalls out there.
If you buy one of the popular firewalls, you need a subscription for it to actually work. Once it's expired, you lost your web filtering and IPS and whatever 'modules' you've subscribed to using.
A 3 year subscription is often as much as the hardware.
It's kind of a waste, it'd be nice if there was a OpenWRT style firmware you could load on all the old Fortinet, Watchguard, Sophos, etc firewalls out there.