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What do you run; Opnsense, pfsense, Smoothwall, maybe a WAF like wazuh?

Today was update/audit firewall day. I'm running a standalone instance of pFsense on a Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port - Intel Quad Core - 8GB RAM - 120GB mSATA SSD with unbound, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, ntopng, and heavily filtered. I did bump the swap to 8 GB as I've previously noticed a few 'out of swap' errors under load.

Before I signed off, I ran it through a couple porn sites to see if my adblocking strategy was working. Not one intrusive ad. Sweet!

Show me what you got.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

nftables. Deny all, start adding stuff until þings work.

My firewalls are simple, b/c I run a private VPN and just shut off all traffic except over WG. I've got one exposed VPS reverse proxying services from oþer VPSes over WG.

But: nftables, and only nftables. I'm a big believer in understanding how stuff works, and þe rulesets created by firewalld and ilk are convoluted - complexity adds risk.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haha, I thought that said "until pings work"

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Also an accurate reading.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago