Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists

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In that case OPNsense does the exact same thing but with a more intuative GUI. It originally was a fork of pfSense.

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Which is why I said that I’m a purist. But whatever works, they’re both worth exploring. I got dug-in on my solution a decade ago and haven’t really had a reason to change once I learned it.

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Cus there isnt a reason to change if you are already super familiar with pfSense. They basically do the same stuff.

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One has ego issues and shitty code issues.

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I’d agree the OPNsense UI is probably more intuitive if you’ve never touched PFSense but I found the OPNsense UI difficult coming from many years of PF.

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