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Hardware recommendations for running OpenSense as a Firewall? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by pjusk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hiya, looking the a firewall for my homelab, mostly to experiment but also for a added layer of security. There are just two of us in this household with a few laptops, phones and my servers, so nothing much. Therefore looking for something affordable and not "overkill".

Anyone got any recommendations for this? Also how do you run your opensense/pfsense instance?

Appreciate any tips!

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol, translates IPs to MAC addresses
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
NAT	Network Address Translation
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN	Virtual Private Network

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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