Where Are All My Firewall People? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What do you run; Opnsense, pfsense, Smoothwall, maybe a WAF like wazuh?

Today was update/audit firewall day. I'm running a standalone instance of pFsense on a Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port - Intel Quad Core - 8GB RAM - 120GB mSATA SSD with unbound, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, ntopng, and heavily filtered. I did bump the swap to 8 GB as I've previously noticed a few 'out of swap' errors under load.

Before I signed off, I ran it through a couple porn sites to see if my adblocking strategy was working. Not one intrusive ad. Sweet!

Show me what you got.

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[-] weewkron@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Pfsense guy here, and professionally Palo alto guy. Can someone tl;dr the purpose of blockerng and suricata? I thought I remember the Lawrence systems folks mentioning using it for IPS but with segmentation at home "human" IPS seems more relevant than digital

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Suricata: Open source IDS/IPS
PfBlockerNG: Used to block ads, malicious content, and manage access based on IP geolocation and domain names. It provides features like DNS-based blocking

Some of the features of both overlap which might not be a bad thing.

[-] weewkron@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the succinct reply!

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