Can anyone recommend a good firewall router for a small wired LAN? I tried to find one from CISCO but all I can find are VPN routers (pic related). I already have VPN service via TunnelBear. Is "VPN router" just a standard moniker for routers with security functionality? Basically I just need something with a configurable security policy, port forwarding, and packet filtering capabilities to prevent people from hacking into the servers I plan to build.
Firewall router recommendations
Brody Hernandez
Angel King
build your own. pfsense for x86 and openwrt on small devices. goodluck.
Dylan Wright
the thing is: why?
Adam Bailey
I want a hardware firewall. More secure that way.
Aiden Adams
that makes no sense. You know these things run software right? Software which is usually dodgy as fuck and has hardcoded/global default passwords.
Setup your own box with OpenBSD if you want security.
Christian Edwards
I want a choke point on my network that will drop any packets that violate the security policy. Are you saying any device that provides this functionality is going to be backdoored?
Nathan Russell
>CISSHIT
>more secure
*unzips CVE list*
Matthew Ramirez
Unironically pfsense like the other user
T. CCNA
Jordan Collins
To be fair, CISCO probably has the most known exploits because it's the most popular business networking platform.
Logan Miller
Well, I think I found something that fits my needs pretty well and is fairly inexpensive.
Has port forwarding, an SPI firewall, DoS protection, and pretty high bandwidth for something this cheap. What do you guys think?
Alexander Wilson
vm a pfsense
Jackson Gomez
680M wan2lan
you honestly deserve it for even considering it
Robert Nguyen
Wtf are you talking about
>hardware firewall
They all use softwares and are in themselves, computers.
Aiden Martin
user just put all your shit in the DMZ.
“The demilitarized Zone” means no attacks can occur there!
Ayden Powell
To the cucks recommending PFsense, what the fuck are you talking about? Does the back of your computer have a coaxial cable receiver or fiber input? How does your "VM" actually send data out to the rest of the world?
Ian Watson
>being this much of a brainlet
Wyatt Campbell
The summer is in full effect today
Camden Wood
MikroTik
Jaxson Miller
>Does the back of your computer have a coaxial cable receiver or fiber input?
You install the firewall behind the modem/ONT. You literally only need two Ethernet ports, for in/out.
>How does your "VM" actually send data out to the rest of the world?
Your VM has a virtual adapter that connects to your host OS and can use the host's internet connection.
Brody Robinson
Bait
John Morgan
To be fair, most of those are exposed backdoors.
kek
Jayden Hill
I am not worried about my pc, it's my little junky devices that need protection.
Connor Clark
Any advantages of using pfsense over say just standard IP tables with graphical front end?
Christian Peterson
>cucks
Get out. Now.
Samuel Thompson
this. I'm a poorfag I use MikroTik
Connor Ortiz
you actually need only one if you have a managed switch
Jack Harris
Either mikrotik or turris (turris.cz
Lucas Turner
Opnsense on t620 plus with a pcie network card.
Evan Nelson
There are no "hardware firewalls".
Nathaniel Moore
>TunnelBear
why would you willingly use a VPN owned by McAfee
David Robinson
>There are no "hardware firewalls".
the level of Jow Forums holy shit
Ian Peterson
Get a load of this retard.
Jordan Rogers
>no no guise there's no such thing as hardware firewalls
>guise srsly believe me I once installed linux for my mom
>no really there's no such industry
>guise trust me those companies worth millions don't exist!!!
Zachary Ramirez
I bet this guy thinks networking is just Cisco.
Bentley Smith
>I don't know any other vendors so I'll just assume that's true about everyone else
>ah shit I'm too dumb to even use a search engine to check
>hahaha guise cisco amirite xDDD
Josiah Davis
> I don't have an argument, so I'll name call and project
Name a "hardware firewall".
Jordan Sanchez
This guy apparently thinks a general purpose processor running specialised software is a "hardware firewall".
Anthony Gonzalez
>fuck I'm still too dumb to use a serach engine
>but now I have him!
>I'll make _him_ explain it to me!
shit, your devilish ploys have worked!
I simply cannot possibly wait for some retarded argument about how the firewalling functionality of all of these is actually in software, so then they aren't """"really"""" hardware firewalls
aaaah shit too late! we're still too retarded to know how dedicated hardware works!
Logan Scott
So, you can't name one.
Ryan White
who the fuck said there's no hardware firewall you dump shit? even firewall books. called them hardware firewall and software firewall.
Carter Baker
if you think hardware firewall is more secure, I say you're clearly wrong. I can even say pfsense is more secure for home user because you don't need to buy support to get update. You understand right? After you bought them you need to pay to update? that's the way hardware firewall get money.
Landon Rogers
I can lad
I literally am working with 3 vendors of such devices
it's just disappointing that this can't be achieved by your own devices, and it will be a pointless argument to make due to retards like who haven't touched something in the industry in their
Noah Sanders
No you can't. You would have if you could.
Nolan Foster
see
Thomas Wood
you didn't even read it, did you
Justin Ward
you didn't even read it, did you?
Ethan Thomas
Except they're not?
Companies use hardware firewalls because they're really fucking fast, not because they're more secure.
A pfsense box with custom tailored rules is going to be the most secure.