[kwlug-disc] Linux Based Firewalls

[Paul Nijjar]

The Working Centre has been using pfSense for years. It has mostly
been good. I am somewhat wary of the direction NetGate is taking the
product. Others were as well, which is why there was a fork into 
OPNsense. It is not clear that the fork has been that successful,
however. 

My experiences with OpenWRT have been significantly worse than
Khalid's, but it might work okay for you. 

- Paul


On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:20:51PM -0500, Jon Thiele wrote:
> For over 15 years, I have run CentOS based, SMEServer ( smeserver.org ) as
> my main firewall, web server and file server for all of the various devices
> in my home.   I've also installed this distro a quite a few smaller clients
> over the years - were appropriate.  However, their latest release (May
> 2017) is built on CentOS 6.5 - and now past its End-of-life date.  It seems
> that the maintainers are having a tough time building a distro with the new
> CentOS release - all of their config files are written in Perl.  I did a
> bit of testing work on the new release in the spring, but it appears they
> are still a long way off.  So, maybe it's time to move on...
> 
> I searched the KWLUG archives - a couple of mentions of Linux based
> firewalls but nothing I could see that was recent.  So, doing a bit of
> research, it looks like pfSence and OPNsense (both BSD based) and ClearOS
> are leading the pack.  Now, I really like PC based firewalls since I've
> been running this setup for some time - however, I'm not married to them.
> But I do have enough spare, reasonably speedy hardware to run a distro to
> keep up with my internet connection (I think...)
> 
> I've looked at a couple of hardware solutions but they all seem to be
> closed source solutions.  I also read any article that suggested
> running OpenWRT as an alternative to a PC based product.  Interesting...
> 
> So, any recommendations and real world experiences from KWLUG?
> 
> Thanx in advance!!!
> 
> Jon
> 
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