Subj : Using a Pi as a firewall
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : deon
Date : Thu Aug 19 2021 21:19:27

  Re: Using a Pi as a firewall
  By: MeaTLoTioN to All on Thu Aug 19 2021 08:37 am

Howdy,

 Me> I wonder if anyone has set up a Pi to be a firewall. It would run as a 
firewall great I reckon, the only draw back would be the
 Me> single network interface, however that could be overcome with the use of 
vlans.

I've wondered if the Pi would be OK for a firewall - I have doubts about its 
network performance though. (Only because I havent researched it).

Run it ESXi - you can give it as many network interfaces that you want, but I 
guess that would impact performance even more... (And yes, I guesss you still 
need to use a VLAN..)

 Me> Aside from running BBSes, what else do y'all run your Pi's to do? I got 4 
Pi 4B's here, and I had installed ESXI on them, but since
 Me> then I haven't really done anything with them... they look cool in their 
cluster case but I really need to make use of them properly.

Yeah, I've got 2 Pi 4's but they are not in use at the moment.

I did have them running all BBS stuff, but then I setup a door game server and 
used Windows, since that was more successful then dosemu. So the BBS stuff is 
running on a APU1D (also under ESXi).

My Pi 3+ is a retro gameboy that my son has (in a Waveshare Game Hat) - I 
should get that off him and play it...

....лоеп

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