I am very much into the nitty gritty of Linux (I use Alpine fyi) the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…
And I also don’t really know how to set them up… Yk as routers, mainly because my internet comes through PPPoE and I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to pass that through to a VM. I bound the VM to its own NIC, did everything, did not work…
Honestly, I found it really easy. I don’t have a background in IT or anything either.
What did you find difficult? Setting custom firewall rules is harder to understand, but the general functionality of setting up a NAT and even installing and configuring ZenArmor were super super easy.
the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…
oh, well in that case you should fuck around with BSD someday, i’ve been meaning to do so, just haven’t gotten around to it. the various BSDs are the siblings of linux.
as for all of the networking side of things, networking is just a nightmare, that’s just something you have to learn about. Setting up your own local network to figure out how things work in a sterile controlled environment would be good.
I already have my own network with stuff and things… it’s mostly just the simple stuff (TrueNAS scale, pihole, wireguard, nextcloud and other things like that). But yeah, outside my mac, I have literally 0 experience with BSD…
I am very much into the nitty gritty of Linux (I use Alpine fyi) the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…
And I also don’t really know how to set them up… Yk as routers, mainly because my internet comes through PPPoE and I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to pass that through to a VM. I bound the VM to its own NIC, did everything, did not work…
Honestly, I found it really easy. I don’t have a background in IT or anything either.
What did you find difficult? Setting custom firewall rules is harder to understand, but the general functionality of setting up a NAT and even installing and configuring ZenArmor were super super easy.
oh, well in that case you should fuck around with BSD someday, i’ve been meaning to do so, just haven’t gotten around to it. the various BSDs are the siblings of linux.
as for all of the networking side of things, networking is just a nightmare, that’s just something you have to learn about. Setting up your own local network to figure out how things work in a sterile controlled environment would be good.
I already have my own network with stuff and things… it’s mostly just the simple stuff (TrueNAS scale, pihole, wireguard, nextcloud and other things like that). But yeah, outside my mac, I have literally 0 experience with BSD…
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