[ale] Well, goodbye pfSense... need some hardware recs

[DJ-Pfulio]

I've always felt that routers should be routers and maybe 
simple firewalls.

VPN devices should be VPN devices, separate from routers.

Call me crazy.

These are all complex systems. Screwing up the settings in one
could easily cause the others to break.  For me, it is sorta 
like why I don't want my DNS, hosting, and Registrar with the 
same companies.  Keep all 3 separate.

Part of my common sense.  Putting too many features into 1 
device/OS just feels wrong. Isn't that one of the reasons we 
have concerns about that other kitchen-sink OS and split our 
deployments into separate, logical, chunks?

On 3/16/21 1:12 PM, James Sumners via Ale wrote:
> Today Ars posted an article about Netgate sponsoring the addition of
> Wireguard to the FreeBSD kernel. The headline had me excited, as I
> use pfSense and would love drop the OpenVPN config on it. But reading
> the article[1] it becomes clear that Netgate did not do their due
> diligence. They seemingly were okay with committing garbage code to
> the kernel just to get a bullet point on their product. That alone is
> enough to make me look at alternatives (currently thinking opnSense).
> But reading through the comments reveals this gem --
> https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/006499.html