Subj : Re: New firewall.
To   : Weatherman #1
From : Diamond Dave #1@131.Wwivnet
Date : Tue May 14 2024 04:07 am



M> I assume you have the Verizon router due to having the non-streaming TV
M> service with them?  Otherwise, you don't need their router at all.  I
M> just have the relatively small ONT for the fiber to copper.  I assume
M> you must have that to provision service, as I could accept a direct
M> fiber connection if need be.  

Yep, still have good old RF/QAM TV service. Until I can convince my wife go go  
streaming 100%


M> 
M> I was running a double firewall similar to what you described for about
M> a year mainly for some crypto nodes I host in a UPNP DMZ.  I was Cisco
M> ASA->pfsense->DMZ.  Now I'm just pfSense with direct outside/inside/dmz
M> ASA-> interfaces.  No more Cisco ASA in the mix.

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that myself eventually.

M> 
M> DD> I'll have to read up on pfELK. I have never heard of it before.
M> 
M> It was a bear to set up, but is very cool.  Lots of pfSense firewall
M> data (basically a fancy syslog server).  Lots of dashboards you can
M> create to see all types of information.
M> 
M> DD> I dabble quite a bit in networking, but I'm not a network
M> DD> engineer. I
M> DD> talk to an office mate who is one who has done this for industry
M> DD> for over
M> DD> 30 years and is an expert in VMWare, ACI, NX-OS, etc.
M> 
M> I didn't really start heavy in networking until around 24 years ago. 
M> Prior to that, I was more of a systems/server engineer.  These days
M> while my main focus is still networking/security/architecture, I still
M> do VMware related tasks, some light SAN stuff, VoIP, and pretty much
M> anything in the technology space. I try to keep at least a solid
M> understanding of all the technologies even though enterprise networking
M> and security are my main gigs.

What's your view on new hypervisors like ProxMox instead of VMWare now that  
Broadcom bought them out?

*** Diamond Dave ***


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