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I'm not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.

What's your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?

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[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you'll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so......

[โ€“] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 good firewalls, ...

Very slick & professional