Secure Home Network with OPNsense
I was working on some smart home project as I bought a new home earlier this year. With more and more devices connected to my home network then to Internet. I do have some concerns regarding the security of those devices. For two reasons: Quite of the smart home devices need to have Internet connection and being controlled by some SaaS platform Any devices in my home network can communicate with the smart home devices Smart home devices can freely talk to other devices in my home network In order to provide some protection to the home network and those smart home devices, I decided to bring some open source software firewall to segregate the traffic for different types of the devices. After doing some research, I decided to go with OPNsense firewall. According to the article on Wikipedia, OPNsense is an open source, FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software developed by Deciso. It is a fork of pfSense, which in turn was forked from m0n0wall built o...