What Are You Doing Right Now

jt1001001

@gjacobse at least you got out to operate Feld.Day, family commitments kept me off the air this year

nadnerB

One of my kids discovered rainbow road this evening...
I'm still laughing... is that cruel?

gjacobse

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse at least you got out to operate Feld.Day, family commitments kept me off the air this year

I hate to hear that. Atmospheric conditions were junk for a good while…

Hopefully family is safe and healing..

scottalanmiller

Been in Guatemala City the last few days. About to do my last bit of walking around before it is time to head out to Atitlan.

WrCombs

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

dafyre

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

WrCombs

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

WrCombs

anyone using Linux Mint as their Daily driver ?

dafyre

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

JaredBusch

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

dafyre

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

Thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since I dug into pfSense.

WrCombs

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

what do you suggest? or use - rather

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

Lame. No wonder I've heard nothing of it in forever.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone using Linux Mint as their Daily driver ?

Long ago I did. I don't find it as good as Ubuntu itself.

scottalanmiller

On Lake Atitlan for the next several days. And it appears that we actually have working INternet here at our little jungle hotel place.

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

scottalanmiller

About to go hiking around the lake while waiting for @valentina to wake up and want her coffee.

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .