As the provided Version Comparison Chart is really incomplete I've created a list of (hopefully) all features which are disabled in the Essential Firewall:

- automatic firmeware updates
- automatic configuration backups
- user portal (would not make sense)
- High Availability (HA)
- external authentication servers (LDAP, AD, Radius, ...)
- Time Events
- Network Link Aggregation
- Network Uplink Balancing
- Network Multipath Rules
- Network Policy Routing
- Network Dynamic Routing (OSPF)
- Network Quality of Service (QoS) Traffic Selectors
- Network Quality of Service (QoS) Bandwidth Pools
- Network Multicast Routing (PIM-SM)
- DNS: Request Routing
- Network Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
- Network Server Load Balancing
- Network Generic Proxy
- Network SOCKS Proxy
- Network IDENT Reverse Proxy
- Web Security (including all HTTP/HTTPS and FTP proxy services)
- Mail Security (including all SMTP and POP3 proxy services)
- Mail encryption
- VoIP Security
- IM/P2P support
- Site-to-site VPN
- Remote Access SSL VPN
- Remote Access IPSec
- Remote Access Cisco VPN Client
- Logging: Remote Syslog Server
- Logging: Remote Log File Archives
- Reporting: Exceptions (useless without web or mail security)
- Reporting: Anonymizing (useless without web or mail security)
- Reporting: Network Security -> Packet Filter
- Reporting: Executive Reports archiving and automated creation

If you find anything else, feel free to extend the list ;-)

No site-to-site VPN? Can someone confirm that? I have a client who only wants basic firewall with a S-2-S IPsec connection, and I thought this might be the solution.

Thanks - Bob

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Yes, i confirm that.

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You do have Site-to-site VPN with essential license!
I have one up and running

Hi Andresaso,
Are you sure that you have applied the Essential license? If it is installed without the license applied then you may still be in a 30 day trial period which would allow site to site VPN to function, but that functionality will probably stop working once the 30 days are up, or the Essential license is applied.
What version are you running?
Regards,
Chris

I'm sure that I have the essential license applied, but just on one side.
Its run on 7.402.

I guess that someone with more knowledge on the specific versions might need to give some feedback on this. I thought that the Essential Edition was only introduced with version 7.500, so I am not sure how a 7.402 firewall responds with the Essential Firewall license. It could be that your 7.402 box will take the license and provide some services that aren't intended for use on the Essential Edition.
I do know that with 7.500 or newer, site-to-site VPN is disabled when the Essential Firewall license is used.
I hope that this helps,
Chris

Yes, S2S would be a great feature, has anyone found out if this can be done or not? When I get home from work today Ill download and try and setup a couple to see what can be done.

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After upgrading to 7.502 IPSEC is disabled!

How can I update the firmware of an essential firewall? automatic update is disabled.

Is it possible by manual Up2Date package upload?

Marco