As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

It doesn’t take a lot of preparation besides setting up your hardware, and we’ve already done that. Now we need to download pfSense, and we head over to the official download site for that. At the ...

i would read through the below links and digest what they say, and more importantly their differences. for example, you may not need to allocate as much memory to the tcp and udp stacks as they do, ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.

While there are a lot of settings to look at and change, some are more important than others. For example, you’ll probably want to stop by your network interface setups and have a look. In most cases, ...