![]() Also notice, that this review takes a stand regarding building the firewall on top of bare metal hardware (HW) and not virtualizing it. Albeit notice, that I’m taking a stand regarding building the actual device only, but not so much configuring it. With this fairly lightweight and intermediate level article I would like to share my own personal experience and provide hints & tips in hope it would help someone else passionate enough and thinking about taking the same journey as I did to the world of self-build firewalls. Cisco IOS and Extreme Networks Exos) and I know, but haven’t really used a lot of other various Unix-like router and FW software packages/distros (e.g. I’m also a bit familiar with few commercial network appliance OS’ (e.g. DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Gargoyle Router, Tomato Firmware etc. My experience from Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) firewall/router Operating Systems comes from Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) router world including e.g. During the past 20 years I’ve built, configured and hardened my various home networks to include dozens of workstations, servers, mobile devices, switches and routers since pre-teen and from now on and since summer of 2018, dedicated self-build firewall (FW) appliances as well. ![]() I’m a passionate Cyber Security and Network enthusiast, long time computer nerd and IT Business Professional. I finally had time enough to build, deploy and configure my own dedicated Enterprise-Level bare metal hardware firewall from the scratch. During the long and exceptionally hot summer of 2018 in Finland I was able to accomplish an ICT project which I had longed for quite a while now.
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