I chose pfSense as the firewall. Not claiming it was after some exhaustive search, it wasn’t. I know that there are other options, here are some of the reasons pfSense was selected.
- Wide usage/active community
- Ease of deployment
- Good hardware support
- FreeBSD – I wanted OS diversity
- WebUI
- Functionality including packages
- Wanted to move off of the wireless AP as the network router ASAP
- It came preinstalled on the used hardware I planned on ordering
I do have a suggestion here, if you plan on deploying a standalone DNS/DHCP server make it the second software installed. I retrofit mine, worrying about accidentally taking the network down kept me up for a few hours.
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