Hiya, looking the a firewall for my homelab, mostly to experiment but also for a added layer of security. There are just two of us in this household with a few laptops, phones and my servers, so nothing much. Therefore looking for something affordable and not “overkill”.

Anyone got any recommendations for this? Also how do you run your opensense/pfsense instance?

Appreciate any tips!

  • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Take a sophos second hand FW.

    Intel nic, low power consumption processors and full opnsense support.

    Go at least for 4gb ram and the most powerful processor you can safely get. It will come with a lot of eth ports too on top.

    And it will cost close to 100€, probably less if you struck a good deal

    • pjusk@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Good shout, on our second hand market there is currently a Sophos SG-115 for sale for 100ish euros. It includes an AP 55C and a Unifi poe adapter. Doesnt seem too bad a deal to me. What do u think?