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

[Ben Woods]

I’ve always had good luck with Pfsense, but I would put the wifi onto a separate device, like a unifi access point (since wifi drivers aren’t a strong suit of Pfsense)

On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, at 9:33 AM, Daniel wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> Possibly ‘hosting’ a low speed low cost hobby webserver from home 
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> Untangle seems good for my non expert status but not easily adapted for the wireless and not necessarily powerful enough 
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> Pfsense popular and even I read working on inclusion of Crowdsec. Some hardware designed for it (like Netgate 6100)
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> 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 
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thank you 
> 
> Daniel 
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