[ale] So, who do we like for a new 4 port gigabit LAN/WAN Firewall Routers these days?

[Chuck Payne]

You can use it as a virtual guest. I ran pfSense for almost a year as
libvirtd (KVM ) Virtual host. It worked. It took me a bit to set up a
bridge to be the outside wan.  It worked, the only reason I moved it back
to hardware is that I want to free up the bridge IP. Plus, I use OpenVPN
that is built into the router as my means to VPN home network when I was in
the office. It worked better with hardware than being a virtual server.

Netgate ( pfSense )  has virtual servers you can try 30 days in Amazon or
Azure, that would be like I was running.

I have been tolling with the idea of buying a Banana Pi (
http://www.banana-pi.org/r1.html ) because they have a SBC that has four
nics on them that would be great to build a home base router,

https://zrouter.org/projects/zrouter/wiki/Quickstart

I will say one more thing for pfSense, when I worked PMI, we had two of the
pfSense boxes, one in the Datacenter and one office. We had IPSEC tunnel
up, worked just as good Sonicwall we had before. We had it set up for VPN
as well, so days the developer worked from home, they could just vpn
connect to all the servers. To Raj's point they are  inexpensive and you
get support once you have bought one.

The model we used is no longer made, but this is close to it.

https://shop.netgate.com/products/2100-base-pfsense

Anyway, more thought on it.

Speaking of Cisco, I got ASA 5500, but it needs the memory replaced.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:31 AM Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Yes and no. :)  Yes, pfSense does use a "computer" (isn't most everything
> a computer these days?  Haha!), but you could do what I do and run a
> firewall appliance like this:
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-Gigabit-AES-NI-Barebone/dp/B072ZTCNLK/ref=sr_1_1_sspa
>
> It's inexpensive, runs cool, doesn't need a fan, and uses very little
> power.
>
> pfSense also sells their own appliances that are pretty decently priced.
>
> https://www.pfsense.org/products/
>
> /Raj
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Steve Litt via Ale
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 6:06 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] So, who do we like for a new 4 port gigabit LAN/WAN
> > Firewall Routers these days?
> >
> > I used (and liked) pfSense for several years. The only problem was it
> > consumed a computer, with the 24/7 power requirements that implies.
> >
> > Now I'm using my Spectrum cable modem as a firewall/router/dhcpserver.
> > If that ever doesn't work (I blow out cable modems every few years)
> > I'll go back either to pfSense or OpenBSD and pf.
> >
> > SteveT
>
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