eBox Platform is an open source unified network server (or an Unified Network Platform) for SMEs. eBox Platform can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications Server or a combination of them. Besides, eBox Platform includes a development framework to ease the development of new Unix based services.

Features

As of February 2010 eBox Platform 1.4 offers the following features:^[6]

• Networking
  • Firewall and routing
    • Filtering
    • NAT and port redirections
    • VLAN 802.1Q
    • Support for multiple PPPoE and DHCP gateways
    • Multi-gateway rules, load balancing and automatic failover
    • Traffic shaping (with application layer support)
    • Graphical traffic rate monitoring
    • Network intrusion detection system
    • Dynamic DNS client
  • Network infrastructure
    • DHCP server
    • NTP server
    • DNS server
      • Dynamic updates via DHCP
    • RADIUS server