Preface

4i Edge X is an IoT gateway device, supporting docker and providing unparalleled network security and connectivity. This document is both an User Manual and a Guide to the configuration of the various part of the 4i Edge X web interface and its functionalities.

The latest updates and corrections to this manual, referred to the latest release of the 4i Edge X, will be available online at http://docs.endian.com/6.0/4i/. If you think that you have found any errors, either simple typos or even content errors, feel free to provide us feedback using the Endian’s bug tracker.

Legal notice

The 4i Edge X Reference Manual 6.0 (“this document”) is copyright 2011-2019, Endian S.r.l. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the GNU Free Documentation License.

This document has been written by the Endian Team, building on the previous versions (5.1, 5.0, 3.0.5), and features improved content and a completely reworked layout, which resembles the new GUI of the 6.0 product line.

Older versions

Version 2.4 was written by (in alphabetical order) Andreas Ender, Diego Gagliardo, Luca Giovenzana,. Christian Graffer, Raphael Lechner, Chris Mair, Raphael Vallazza, and Peter Warasin. Some parts of the 2.4 documentation were based on the IPCop Administrative Guide by Chris Clancey, Harry Goldschmitt, John Kastner, Eric Oberlander, Peter Walker and on the IPCop Advanced Proxy Administrative Guide by Marco Sondermann.

Reference manuals written for older releases can be found in the Documentation archive.

The information contained within this document may change from one version to the next and may also change over time without notice to improve the content, to correct any error or mistake, or to describe new or changed features. The date of the last update is always present at the bottom of every page.

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Acknowledgements

Without the great work of the Smoothwall and then of the IPCop team, neither 4i Edge X nor this document would exist. Therefore we would like to thank them all for their hard work.

Thanks to Sourceforge for the hosting. Without Sourceforge we would not have the possibility to gain such a huge worldwide visibility. You are really helping us very much!

Endian web sites

For more information about Endian S.r.l., Italy and its products, please visit Endian web site at https://www.endian.com/.

Many resources (tutorials, how-tos, examples) in this manual are taken from those web sites:

• https://help.endian.com/hc/en-us/ The new support center for the Endian products, that should become the reference site to support customers and users. Several links to howtos on this site are provided on this documentation at the end of the various subsections.

• http://kb.endian.com/ The old knowledge base of Endian, now discontinued. Its content, including configuration examples, has been incorporated either in the reference manual on in the help.endian.com site.

• https://jira.endian.com/ Endian’s bug tracker, the place in which to search for existing bugs and their resolution or workarounds and to report new issues. It replaces the older bug tracker located at http://bugs.endian.com/, which is still accessible but not maintained anymore.