Any beginner build guides would be a great help.

I know I can baremetal install or virtualise pfSense, but am looking for some advice on what a beginner like me should do. I don't have tonnes of time to fiddle with it, and don't want to dive headlong into this, it I'm just going to create problems. I'm a mechatronics engineer and like computers, but am by no means a network security expert, and have a family to maintain network reliability for. I've got my first proxmox machine running on a Dell T3500 for experimenting with VMs, and my plan was to install pfSense on a spare HP 8300 elite (i5-3570, 8gb RAM, separate Dual NIC for LAN) dedicated to network tasks (pfSense, pihole, OpenVPN, NXfilter or similar), using my VR1600v as an access point only. This may or may not be the actual issue, perhaps me tinkering is the true issue. r/pfblockerng /r/sysadmin /r/networking /r/homelab /r/homenetworkingĪs an Aussie with TPG NBN FTTC broadband (50Mbps only), I hate my TPlink VR1600v modem/router, and blame it for much of my occasional internet reliability issues. This is a community subreddit so lets try and keep the discourse polite. This subreddit is primarily for the community to help each other out, if you have something you want the maintainers of the project to see we recommend posting in the appropriate category on our Netgate forum.

If you are looking to sell or buy used hardware, please try /r/hardwareswap. If you are looking for help with basic networking concepts, please try /r/homelab or for more advanced, /r/networking.ĭo not post items for sale in this subreddit.

Use a search engine like Google to search across the domain: We have a great community that helps support each other, but we also provide 24x7 commercial support.īefore asking for help please do the following: You can install the software yourself on your own hardware. You can buy official pfSense appliances directly from Netgate or a Netgate Partner.

The pfSense project is a free, open source tailored version of FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface.

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