News How to Build a Hardware Firewall with IPFire

[Admin]

Install the IPFire Linux Distro on a PC or Raspberry Pi and use it to keep your home network safe.

How to Build a Hardware Firewall with IPFire : Read more

 

[digitalgriffin]

So what's the advantage to alternatives like
SOPHOS
Untangle
PFSense/OPNSense

Untangle is supposed to be easier, but I went with PFSense for the free plugins like CLAM and SNORT.

OPNSense will be the first to adopt Linus's integration of wireguard VPN protocol into the kernel

Linus Torvalds pulled WireGuard VPN into the 5.6 kernel source tree

The last likely hurdle to inclusion in the Linux kernel itself is cleared.

arstechnica.com

It would be a good article to compare the alternatives.

 

[farnell121]

I personally use a J3455 based Celeron box with PFSense and my network couldn't be happier.

If you want to use encrypted services like VPN's with good throughput you want a CPU with AES-NI, encrypt/decrypt instruction set.

PFSense is FreeBSD based and has a solid network stack for these kind of tasks. I have my entire network ran through a VPN, firewalled everything but what I access, and have ad-blocking for most sites. Plus, not too hard to set up rules, like PS4 to bypass anonymous VPN.

I love ARM based systems but if you need more than basic, or looking to support lots of devices, I recommend at least a CPu with AES-NI no matter which OS you go with.