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

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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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

When you say open 22, do you mean with just password access with multiple users? I recently made mine only allow entry using ssh certs iirc. And then just blocked incoming for the time being. Guess I'll need to fix that before another git pull request.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think when I said open port 22, I was giving an illustration of the hordes of bots that will show up at your doorstep. Best practice is to use ssh keys and rotate them.

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