Whether pfsense is a good fit for you, or not, depends on what you want out of your firewall. I agree and disagree with the virtualization comment from u/EidolonVS however I went the vm route because of snapshotting and a few other reasons. I also run my DC on a vm on the same box, grafana stack, pihole/unbound vm, and a few other network related goodies. u/RoweDent created this awesome resource on network theory u/tht1kidd_ has created a suggestion post regarding information everyone needs to provide when asking a question about their network There have been some excellent guides written in this sub, and we're always looking for more! If you wish for your flair to be changed, please message the mods and we'll be happy to change it for you. Proof of at least 6 month's history of posting in this subredditĪs a result of this, users are now no longer able to edit their own flair. Your highest level of industry certification, or highest IT related job title held in the last 5 years to a comment you made in the last 6 months, helping someone in the community To obtain trusted flair for your account please message the mods of /r/HomeNetworking with the following info Trusted user flair has been added as a means of verification that a user has a substantial knowledge of networking. Please flair your posts as Solved, Unsolved, or simply Advice. If you can't find what you're looking for with the search function please feel free to post a new question after reading the posting guidelines Go with pfSense and turn off the routing feature.Ī firewall is a router, you don't just turn it off.Please use the search function to look for keywords related to what you want to ask before posting since most common issues have been answered. And any stats I need, are easily available, even firewall logs With VyOS I can configure it from the CLI, or with Ansible. It has a GUI, but GUIs can be meh and that one is especially so. The FreeBSD networking stack is also complete garbage and is now a decade behind Linux. Including proper zones, which by itself is enough to ditch pfSense forever.Īnd it's faster and more efficient at firewalling than pf (the underlying firewall in pfSense) is. How so? You can literally do whatever you want. Also what's the best device to run PFsence on? I see a lot of you are suggesting PFsence, any idea how do I use it as a firewall and gateway but not a router. As options I saw ipfire, PFsence, sophos xg home(looks awesome but may not work for me as I have some business thing going on) or any thing else out there I don't know about. I am looking for a free options as I looked at some paid ones even the cheapest one is something I don't want to pay for $1500 for 3 years. Which firewall would you suggest which will work best in this situation for me. Recently I have been seeing a lot of botnet attacks on my mail servers so I am thinking of putting a firewall between the isp and the router making the firewall work as a bridge or I can use it as a gateway for internet in my network. I host my own mail servers and also my wife runs a small business so she hosts her website.Ĭurrently I have a EdgeRouter 4 in my network taking care of all the routing needs and it works great with no problem for me. I have a small server setup with a few vlans for my network. r/HomeNetworking - Simpler networking advice. r/pfsense - for all things pfsense ('nix firewall) Might be able to find things useful for a lab. r/hardwareswap - Used hardware, swap hardware. r/buildapcsales - For sales on building a PC r/linux - All flavors of Linux discussion & news - not for the faint of heart! Try to be specific with your questions if possible. r/linux4noobs - Newbie friendly place to learn Linux! All experience levels. r/datacenter - Talk of anything to do with the datacenter here We have an official, partnered Discord server which is great for all kinds of discussions and questions, invite link is clickable button at the top of the sidebar or right here.Keep piracy discussion off of this subreddit.Īll sales posts and online offers should be posted in /r/homelabsales.īefore posting please read the wiki, there is always content being added and it could save you a lot of time and hassle.įeel like helping out your fellow labber? Contribute to the wiki! It's a great help for everybody, just remember to keep the formatting please. Report any posts that you feel should be brought to our attention. We love detailed homelab builds, especially network diagrams! Post about your homelab, discussion of your homelab, questions you may have, or general discussion about transition your skill from the homelab to the workplace. Please see the full rules page for details on the rules, but the jist of it is: Labporn Diagrams Tutorials News Subreddit Rules New to Homelab? Start Here! Homelab Wiki HomelabSales
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