Comment on Let's talk about free/FOSS routing platforms for the homelab

• nbailey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep. Firewall, routing, dhcp, dns, everything you’d expect from a gateway device. Plain Debian (or really any distro) can do it all. With a 1gbps bi-directional connection fully saturated it will run at about 10% cpu on my very crappy low power Celeron CPU.

  Plus, there’s no web UI full of janky and insecure CGI scripts to exploit, and software updates are forever (well, until x64 is deprecated, so basically forever).

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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have really piqued my interest. I have always thought about running my DIY Router + Firewall + switch but had never really spoken to anyone who had done it before (guides on the internet notwithstanding).

    However, if I do something like this, it will likely be on OpenBSD. Now, I haven’t delved deep enough into the BSDs to know if it’s better than Debian since all distributions can be made as secure as we want. However, OpenBSD just has a better image in my mind in terms of security and some of their choices in the OS are to my liking.

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    • nbailey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This was my setup from about four years ago. Other than moving suricata elsewhere, it’s largely the same. Worth a shot if it’s something you’re into!

      nbailey.ca/post/linux-firewall-ids/

      OpenBSD is also great, I’m just more familiar with the Linux tools. All the required tools are in the base image, and they have a great official guide:

      www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

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      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you for documenting the process, was a very interesting read.

        Indeed, they have great documentation on this. Fantastic to have an official guide on something I’d like to do!

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