My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.

Not my article. Just sharing.

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    2 days ago

    Not to mention they tried running a disinformation campaign against OPNsense for a few years, which was resolved in court.

    Also they implemented a WireGuard module that after a review upstream on FreeBSD was found to be completely hocus.