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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I looked into VyOS to replace my main firewall/IPS system (IPfire) with, as I would like to switch to running it in a VM, which is not recommended with IPfire. Seems pretty good so far with the new gratis semi-stable Stream releases.

And I set up Unified Push notifications with my Ejabberd server. Works great.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Opnsense is also great, and has a webUI for easier setup.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago

That is what I started with originally, and I don't want to go back. The WebUI is super convoluted and for anything other than the basics it does more harm than good in my experience... and well, FreeBSD is just not my thing.

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