{"id":1583,"date":"2017-09-28T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-09-28T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:38:04","slug":"looking-at-pfsense-as-a-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2017\/09\/28\/looking-at-pfsense-as-a-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at pfSense as a Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a small, multiple-ethernet port computer arriving from Amazon today (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B072Q872V9\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">QOTOM Core i5<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been running SOHO boundary routers for the last many years and finding that they&#8217;re somewhat inflexible, eventually stop being updated and often frustrating in the features that they omit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a new boundary router sitting on the shelf for about a year that I still can&#8217;t get my ISP connection to provide an address to. It works fine as an upstream off of my internal network though. There isn&#8217;t enough diagnostic information readily available to figure out what is happening and shutting my external connection down for extended experiment breaks isn&#8217;t really a happy thing either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m expecting to install pfSense on the machine when I get it. I&#8217;ll have to come up to speed on the configuration for pfSense, but I expect that once I&#8217;ve got it in place, the project will continue providing updates over a much longer span than other options. I&#8217;m also hoping that inbound VPN capability can be set up without extra cost client packages and other entanglements&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update once I&#8217;ve got the hardware in hand and have started in on the setup process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a small, multiple-ethernet port computer arriving from Amazon today (a QOTOM Core i5). I&#8217;ve been running SOHO boundary routers for the last many years and finding that they&#8217;re somewhat inflexible, eventually stop being updated and often frustrating in the features that they omit. I&#8217;ve had a new boundary router sitting on the shelf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2017\/09\/28\/looking-at-pfsense-as-a-firewall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking at pfSense as a Firewall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-px","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}