• Presi300@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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…

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        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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          1 month ago

          yeah, pretty much the same for me, just a little more primitive by nature.

          I hear BSD is pretty nice since it’s one system, instead of a modular system, it makes the actual functionality of the system a little nicer, as well a improving security quite a bit.

          I can’t imagine it’s much different than linux, they’re both unix related, and unix shares heavy ties with most unix related OSs these days.