[plug] Linux Firewall questions from a non expert home user

[Thomas Cuthbert]

I've always had a good experience with openwrt. They have a table of
hardware support here.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

The UI is pretty straight forward.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, 9:33 am Daniel, <daniel at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
> Hi Plug
> It seems many routers are low power and aren’t ever updated by users and
> rarely by their makers.
>
> I’m wondering about a firewall where I can (& will need to) put my hand up
> for support.
>
> I was also thinking about the possibility of having wireless set up with
> say Wireguard VPN where the SSIDs suggested the destination and no software
> needed to be installed on a new device.
>
> Possibly ‘hosting’ a low speed low cost hobby webserver from home
>
> Untangle seems good for my non expert status but not easily adapted for
> the wireless and not necessarily powerful enough
>
> Pfsense popular and even I read working on inclusion of Crowdsec. Some
> hardware designed for it (like Netgate 6100)
>
> Generic linux box with two network interfaces  (eg
> https://morefines.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc)
> UFW (GUFW) ideally I can turn some features on and off
> https://suricata.io/
> https://crowdsec.net/
> the last two seem to support an adaptive system
> Wireguard
>
> Anyway I may be heading in the wrong direction at great speed
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you
>
> Daniel
>
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