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

[Marcos Raúl Carot]

Yes, openwrt user here too.

I have it in my modem/router and also in a couple of other wireless routers
configured as dumb access points.

I use it as AP, dhcp server, dns server, firewall, and to route ports to
different computers.

Cheers,
Marcos

On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 at 11:10, Thomas Cuthbert <tcuthbert90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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