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

[James Sumners]

That's fine. This is for my house, not a business. I have very little 
need for the VPN parts. So a simple implementation in the thing that 
already manages my edge connection is fine by me.

On 2021-03-16 13:55, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> 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
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