InfoWorld on Why You Should Be Running pfSense
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InfoWorld talks about why pfSense is one of the best firewalls available today.
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Interesting..
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pfSense has always been good. This article was really focused on home users. I wish that he had commented on its use in the commercial space.
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I suppose it was a nice little article, but really didn't tell you much.
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I like pfSense a lot. This article basically just said... you should use pfSense because I am using it at home, which is fine. Although understandably it is hard to review a router without a massive amount of data.
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@coliver
It's hard to review without more data.. One thing I like about Untangled - though it may not fit the bill as a router - can do daily, weekly and month reporting.I don't know if my last office is still running the UT box I installed six years ago,.. but it gave me quite a bit of information over the period I was there. Every so often I would print out a 72 page report - which was just a days worth.
I've heard really good things about pfSense and am looking at maybe deploying it at home.
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You could tie pfSense to an ELK box and get very detailed reports that way.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You could tie pfSense to an ELK box and get very detailed reports that way.
So, I went and looked up ELK. Now I want to set it up and test it out.
@scottalanmiller Since you recommended it, how does this walkthrough strike you?
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@JaredBusch at a quick glance it looks good. Maybe I will run through it later too.
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@JaredBusch I read through that. I may try and run through it today against some of our switches just to see how hard it is.
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@scottalanmiller @coliver I did not have time to set it up yesterday, but I will try and do it today on CentOS 7.
Tonight is my online D&D game so nothing will get done after work hours today!
