The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Glingling on 2024-12-26 10:16:48.

Hello everyone,

I have a simple question: why do you use a firewall (such as OPNsense, pfSense, Sophos, etc.) in your homelabs?

Which features or use cases do you rely on the most? For example:

• DHCP ?
• VLAN segmentationc?
• DNS resolver ?
• TLS packet inspection ?
• Web filtering ?
• SD-WAN ?
• Multi-WAN ?
• Other ?

I’m curious to know how each of you makes use of these solutions in a personal or lab environment. Thanks in advance for your feedback!