![]() I decided to use an Intel NUC for hardware, these are very popular within the VMware Home Lab Community meaning there was already lots of support getting ESXi up and running successfully, and also the awesome USB Native Driver Fling from William Lam & Songtao Zheng would be needed to get the additional NICs up and running. Also, by using the community edition of Veeam I would be able to take regular backups of the VM making it super easy to migrate, should I need to swap out the underlying hardware for any reason further down the line.ĭue to location and the fact the firewall would need to be running 24/7 I needed something quiet with low power consumption. I decided to run pfSense as a virtual machine as this would provide the easiest protection and roll back functions (snapshots) to cover against any upgrades or configuration changes that do not go according to plan, this way I could be back to a working internet connection in minutes rather than having to worry about BareMetal installs and config backups. If you are looking for a firewall that is more "commercial grade", one that is packed with enterprise features but do not want it to cost a fortune then pfSense could well be it! this post will cover what I now run as the main firewall at home. ![]() ![]() A recent requirement came up for a security feature that my existing home router / firewall could not solve so I set about looking for an alternative solution. ![]()
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