ELUG Meetup: 28 September 2023

Topic: How to set up and use opnsense/pfsense, a.k.a. a refresher in how to secure your home network
Presenter: Robert was the test subject

We walked through a hypothetical home network setup, where the user (me) wanted to isolate his home network from the default ISP router-created network. I also wanted to add pihole (or some equivalent adblocking functionatlity).

Either one of pfsense or Opnsense will do for this purpose; i happened to choose opnsense because that’s the one that installed with no issues. David and Rajiv provided some direction in how to configure opnsense, and we discussed other options and configurations that may be useful for other users and varying situations.