Why do I like to watch them? Can’t explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I’m just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it’s mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.
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TCB13@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, but why? If you’ve a simple router running OpenWrt or something with all WAN ports closed you basically have the same thing.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 days ago
Do check OpenWRT again. These days even a network-ignorant person like myself can point and click to set up guest networks, configure individual devices’ access, adblock, crazy giod firewalls, …
Very slick & professional
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe it’s a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 days ago
I too use my PiHole for this pleasurable activity
Look at all the bots and trolls that slammed against my Skynet OpenWRT module… and died.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It really is satisfying. I can’t explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 days ago
It reminds us we are on the side of The Good.
It is also wonderful schadenfreude to see scammers frustrated.