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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse @jt1001001
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      @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @gjacobse at least you got out to operate Feld.Day, family commitments kept me off the air this year

      I hate to hear that. Atmospheric conditions were junk for a good while…

      Hopefully family is safe and healing..

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Been in Guatemala City the last few days. About to do my last bit of walking around before it is time to head out to Atitlan.

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        • WrCombsW
          WrCombs
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          playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @WrCombs
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            @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

            After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

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            • WrCombsW
              WrCombs @dafyre
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              @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

              After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

              Same kind of thing? software router?
              opensource?
              I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

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              • WrCombsW
                WrCombs
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                anyone using Linux Mint as their Daily driver ?

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                • dafyreD
                  dafyre @WrCombs
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                  @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                  After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

                  Same kind of thing? software router?
                  opensource?
                  I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

                  Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

                  I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @dafyre
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                    @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                    After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

                    Same kind of thing? software router?
                    opensource?
                    I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

                    Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

                    I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

                    pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @JaredBusch
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                      @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                      After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

                      Same kind of thing? software router?
                      opensource?
                      I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

                      Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

                      I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

                      pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

                      Thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since I dug into pfSense.

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                      • WrCombsW
                        WrCombs @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                        After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

                        Same kind of thing? software router?
                        opensource?
                        I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

                        Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

                        I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

                        pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

                        what do you suggest? or use - rather

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                          After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

                          Same kind of thing? software router?
                          opensource?
                          I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

                          Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

                          I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

                          pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

                          Lame. No wonder I've heard nothing of it in forever.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @WrCombs
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                            @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                            Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @WrCombs
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                              @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              anyone using Linux Mint as their Daily driver ?

                              Long ago I did. I don't find it as good as Ubuntu itself.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                On Lake Atitlan for the next several days. And it appears that we actually have working INternet here at our little jungle hotel place.

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                                • WrCombsW
                                  WrCombs @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                                  Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

                                  It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @WrCombs
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                                    @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                                    Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

                                    It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

                                    I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      About to go hiking around the lake while waiting for @valentina to wake up and want her coffee.

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                                      • WrCombsW
                                        WrCombs @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                                        Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

                                        It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

                                        I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

                                        well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                                          last edited by

                                          @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                                          Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

                                          It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

                                          I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

                                          well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .

                                          No, I was explaining why I don't bother playing with the different ones out there - because it's not knowledge I can then apply to production. So while potentially interesting, it's not very valuable IMHO. There was a time when products like pfSense would get put on dedicated hardware because nothing on the market was any good. But today, it's very much a flipped market. Today you get better prices and better products by avoiding that stuff rather than by using it.

                                          Just suggesting that if you are looking to play with something to further your career, pretty much anything else would be better because essentially (not completely) it's a product category without a use case today, making the time spent learning it and researching it lost to you.

                                          Unless you are at a point in your career where there's just nowhere to go so you are no longer learning for the point of career growth 😉 Nothing wrong with playing around with tech if you find it fun. Just making sure you understand that knowing every software firewall on the market inside and out won't give you any soft of advantage of someone that just took a nap instead.

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                                          • dafyreD
                                            dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

                                            Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

                                            It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

                                            I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

                                            Don't let Scott scare you off of using something like pfSense or OPNsense. Either would be fine in production use -- on decent hardware.

                                            I've used pfSense for a while at my last job. I've used both as routers for Lab environments as well.

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