-=> Nick Andre wrote to Kevin Nunn <=-

 NA> For the work in doing that, why not pick up a second-hand server or
 NA> powerful workstation ala what Sean has and just do a proper Pfsense
 NA> install on that?

Because, even with pfSense, with a port forwarded, it won't apply any NAT
firewall rules so Kevin would still have to run some sort of firewall on his
OS/2 box, much like I run fail2ban for my SSH and FTP ports on my Linux box.

(Side note: once I configured fail2ban right, it's like a mousetrap with
these script kiddies.)

 NA> I dunno, I guess I just consider Pi's to be "toys"... any firewall I
 NA> consider to be a crucial part of one's network.

Only the RPi 4 and above would be considered somewhat able to be used as
firewalls as on these RPis, the Ethernet port(s) are no longer tied into the
USB bus which made the networking slow.

I do not think they qualify to run pfSense on them since they cannot handle
more than one gigabit NIC (I may be wrong on this).

My pfSense box is a HP EliteDesk 705 desktop with an i5 and 12GB RAM in it
with a Broadcom onboard gigabit NIC and an Intel PRO/1000 PCIe NIC.  It's
overkill for what I need but it works well.

-- Sean

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