Atreyu wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Did you try out the OpenVPN wizard in Pfsense?
I had mine working in minutes.

I need to set up. Thanks for reminding me. I paid for a year of service
from Private Internet Access ($40!) and am using it on my personal machine.

I should do that this weekend. It's not hard. I could add access for
Andrew so he can look at the BBS if needed also.

-- Sean

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Hello Atreyu,

Thursday June 22 2023 17:20, you wrote to me:

I can't remember but I think it also automatically creates the inbound rule.

It does all of the heavy lifting for you.

-- Sean

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On 23 Jun 23 13:11:59, Sean Dennis said the following to Atreyu:

It does all of the heavy lifting for you.

I'm just not entirely sold on the idea by some techs that one "should have" a Pfsense appliance as opposed to having it run on a typical name brand
off the shelf server system or a decent high-end workstation.

Nick

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On 23 Jun 2023, Atreyu said the following...

I'm just not entirely sold on the idea by some techs that one "should have" a Pfsense appliance as opposed to having it run on a typical name brand off the shelf server system or a decent high-end workstation.

if anything, a lot of those devices are under-powered. or have no upgrade
path (just throw 2.5G or 10Gbit NICs in and boom, commodity PC wins).

then again, i have friends who have (albeit older) juniper routers and other pro gear and they think all of this stuff is silly.

i guess if the appliance saves electricity.. maybe? but i tend to have a linux machine on all the time here anyways so it's basically a wash

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