i used to use suricata on pfsense
but i found that it got trigger updating packages on Freebsd
took me a while to figure out what the issue was and why i couldnt update Freebsd
it may have been how i had suricata set up
just a heads up in case you get it set up and then find freebsd updates get blocked
for now the basic setup was fine,but I'dont need strictly suricata, I'just want to do a L7 firewall in FreeBSD in conjunction with PF
What kind of traffic? What do you want to monitor and/or block?I'just want to do a L7 firewall
What kind of traffic? What do you want to monitor and/or block?
Your firewall host won't be able to view what's inside the SSL/TLS connection. It's end-to-end encrypted (from client to server).
You will probably be able to do this with a (web)proxy that can do SSL/TLS interception.