I'm posting this in off-topic because it really isn't a "help" question, just what y'all think for choice of PF firewall implementation. My apologies if this is the wrong place.
I just bought an ALIX APU2, and when my SSD comes in, I want to make it into my edge router/firewall for my house. Because of the way my house is unfortunately wired, my network security sucks for my home and server. So I'll be doing some VLANing. I'm looking at
1) OpenBSD to do the job (barely touched the OS so it'll be a learning experiment)
2) FreeBSD and using its PF
3) OPNSense or pfSense to take the easy way out and not use CLI much
Have any of you tackled this task before? What are your opinions and what did you end up doing? Do you regret your choice? My thought is to give OpenBSD a go as it's new to me and a wicked contender for something that will very heavily need the best of security
I just bought an ALIX APU2, and when my SSD comes in, I want to make it into my edge router/firewall for my house. Because of the way my house is unfortunately wired, my network security sucks for my home and server. So I'll be doing some VLANing. I'm looking at
1) OpenBSD to do the job (barely touched the OS so it'll be a learning experiment)
2) FreeBSD and using its PF
3) OPNSense or pfSense to take the easy way out and not use CLI much
Have any of you tackled this task before? What are your opinions and what did you end up doing? Do you regret your choice? My thought is to give OpenBSD a go as it's new to me and a wicked contender for something that will very heavily need the best of security