ClearOS 7 went past its end-of-life yesterday, so what now? All the Centos7 repos which ClearOS relied on for updates when updates were actually happening, have now been pulled. ClearOS is 23 months behind Centos for updates as no updates to ClearOS have happened since 31st July 2022. There are critical vulnerabilities in ClearOS including in the core packages, so ClearOS must be considered insecure.

I understand Nick Howitt has a copy of the necessary Centos repos and updated ClearOS packages which can bring ClearOS up to date to 30th June 2024 and will fix all critical vulnerabilities to that point and that he can be contacted at:But that can only be a short term measure because, if any more vulnerabilities get discovered, they will never be fixed, no matter how severe the vulnerabilty. Really the whole ClearOS operating system should be replaced.

I am not sure what happened to all Michael Proper's platitudes and promises of a replacement. Vapourware?

Personally I would have thought splitting the firewall from the rest of the server functions was a good way to go. For a Firewall, I'd look at pfSense, Opnsense, IPFire and NethSecurity (based on OpenWRT). For a server, it really depends on your use case.

I completely agree.
ClearOS has not been supported for a long time and Michael has gone up in smoke after his promises.
Nick was the only positive factor and can be trusted. happy that he still managed to make some fixes for threats.
It's really just shameless that Michael makes his users pay for doing absolutely nothing for it.
Afijn. I myself switched to NethSecurity as my firewall and VPN server. This runs fine and the support from the team and forum are great. Feels like the Clear forum of a few years ago.
When NetServer 8 is a bit more developed I will also switch my mail server and be completely rid of ClearOS.
This hurts a bit after being an active user for 20 years.

I can't access to my router.

First of all I would like to say hello to everyone.

I have been using ClearOs in Gateway Mode for a few years now and I'm very happy with the way it works. I use a PC with two network cards, one of which connects to my ISP's router, the other to my LAN.

I recently replaced the hard disk I was using with an SSD, and installed ClearOS again. Then I went through the wizard, and finally imported the backup of the settings I had in the previous installation, so ClearOS started downloading all the Apps again and apparently left everything as it was before.

The problem comes when I want to access the web interface of my router, because previously I could do it without any problem by simply typing its IP (I used this in my bookmarks: http://192.168.9.1/main.html ). Now it is impossible to do so. I have also made pings to that IP which get no response.

I don't know if there is any setting I can check to be able to access it as before, but I don't remember doing anything when it was working in the previous installation.

Can you help me?