On 2022-12-19 16:29, joe a wrote:
Flame retardant thermal ware in place. In the Dim Time, I used IPCop for a few years. When support for that faded, I opted for a hardware unit provided by a vendor I was a "partner" with. They discontinued that platform and will not support it in the future.
I'm facing pursuing upgrading with them or returning to the open source playground on either existing hardware or an APU1 or APU2 type box.
Suggestions? Pointers to current "best in class" information?
I've been using pfSense for almost 7 years, running for the past couple on a Qotom mini PC with i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports. It works very well. I used to run a firewall based on openSUSE Linux, but switched to pfSense to get support for DHCPv6-PD, which is used to provide IPv6 prefixes. I have my network configured with a main LAN, with VLAN for guest WiFi, a test LAN, connection to a Cisco router and and OpenVPN. I also run DNS resolver and NTP server on it.