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Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Yea opensense is the less polished than pfsense, but its decent from what I’ve heard.

I’m not familiar with Idirectord of shorewall. Do you run all that locally? Tbh peplink is ok for the most part but because starlink goes on and off so often, it can get stuck sometimes and because I can’t have a lot of granular control with its load balancing.

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Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So ldirectord is kind of a front-end for ipvsadm. The tools allow you to set up load-balancing between internal servers. I run each service in a VM, and I have at least two copies of each (on separate physical servers). Ldirectord lets me configure how frequently to verify each machine is up, a list of primary servers, and an optional backup when the others go down. Overall it works pretty smooth.

Shorewall is similarly a front end for iptables, allowing a more structured set of configuration files. I’ve been trying to start using Webmin for the first time because it has some nice management of shorewall, maybe I’ll be able to clean up some of my config, but I’d also like to get traffic shaping configured.

I have a dedicated firewall (just moved to a poweredge R620 last night), a NAS, and two VM systems to run services on… all run from home. I enjoy setting things up to play with, so this has all been built up starting from old desktop machines and expanded over time.

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