Those of us who work in the depths of high technology are not immune to the age-old adage of the shoemaker’s children having no shoes. We probably have the most technologically advanced homes of ...

The pfSense firewall software protects your internal network from hackers. To use this software with the Netgear VPN router, you must configure the pfSense software to allow for Netgear VPN user ...

Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.

The PFsense firewalls average about 10% CPU utilization in that case. I assume that you understand the risks of running your firewall on your VM host and not a dedicated piece of equipment. I also ...

Over-the-counter routers are fine and work as they should, but they simply aren’t enough for some of us. Quite a few of the standard routers located around the homes of the world allow for an open ...

I'm looking at creating a home firewall box to run PF Sense on. I already run it on an old rackmount HP server at work, so am familar with the program. I'm wondering what to run it on at home though.

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.