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Title: Home network recommendations?
Post by: trenzafeeds on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:18:42

I want to set up a simple and low-cost home network with a firewall does anyone have recommendations about hardware/operating systems? Right now I'm looking at FreeBSD for the server, but I really want to know how I can do it cheapest. 

Title: Re: Home network recommendations?
Post by: dgneo on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:20:53

Quote from: trenzafeeds on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:18:42

I want to set up a simple and low-cost home network with a firewall does anyone have recommendations about hardware/operating systems? Right now I'm looking at FreeBSD for the server, but I really want to know how I can do it cheapest. 

https://www.pfsense.org/ is probably your best bet, and not a bad solution either! While I haven't set one up myself, I've a couple of co-workers who've set it up and they swear by it.

Title: Re: Home network recommendations?
Post by: trenzafeeds on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:23:26

Quote from: dgneo on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:20:53

Quote from: trenzafeeds on Mon, 26 October 2015, 11:18:42

I want to set up a simple and low-cost home network with a firewall does anyone have recommendations about hardware/operating systems? Right now I'm looking at FreeBSD for the server, but I really want to know how I can do it cheapest. 

https://www.pfsense.org/ is probably your best bet, and not a bad solution either! While I haven't set one up myself, I've a couple of co-workers who've set it up and they swear by it.

Looks pretty good. Does it ship with a VPN daemon? If not I'll most likely just use tinc with it. Should work ok.

Title: Re: Home network recommendations?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 27 October 2015, 04:56:28

I had some success with Untangle at work.

http://www.untangle.com/