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VyOS vs IPFire: catalog facts
VyOS	IPFire
Freemium Open-source and royalty-free, with LTS releases distributed through the support portal and…	Free Free and open source.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Routing, firewall and VPN in a single system Runs on bare metal, cloud and edge hardware	WireGuard, OpenVPN and IPsec supported out of the box Network segmentation into DMZ, guest and trusted zones
LTS builds are distributed through the support portal rather than a public download page Aimed at network engineers rather than home users looking for a simple setup	Needs a dedicated machine or virtual machine Configuring zones and VPNs assumes networking knowledge
Operating system	Operating system
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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