• Edge firewall

    From digimaus@618:618/1 to All on Sat Jan 11 00:16:20 2025
    Hi everyone,

    Here's what I'm looking at buying, hopefully sometime this year, to replace
    my current pfSense box: https://shop.netgate.com/products/2100-base-pfsense

    It's looking at moving the BBS to a small Dell Optiplex 740 (I think) so I
    can put my router/firewall, the BBS, and my WAP on a single shelf in as bookcase or something similar. I'm really trying to downsize. The BBS does not get enough traffic to justify running a big server. Besides script
    kiddies getting caught in fail2ban, that system doesn't see too much
    traffic.

    I happen to have a 2.5" 1TB HDD that I could easily put the entire BBS on
    and still have toom. I'd also like to get a small NAS of some type to put
    on the same shelf with the other equipment and I could use it to serve
    files, et cetera.

    One of the best things I like about that appliance is I can dump my current config to a XML file, upload it to the appliance, and after making a few
    minor changes I'd have a fully configured pfSense appliance.

    -- Sean

    ... There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
    --- MultiMail/Linux
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)