Best GUI firewall for Proxmox home lab use

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I am thinking about installing a Free open-source GUI firewall for Proxmox home lab use. The use case is to monitor internet usage of my children. I am not much skilled in CLI based firewall administration. May I know what is the best GUI based for my use case.

I read the below recently.
https://www.zenarmor.com/docs/network-security-tutorials/best-open-source-firewalls

Would OPNsense / pfSense etc be an overkill?

Any suggestions?

 

[UdoB]

Would OPNsense / pfSense etc be an overkill?

Probably yes!

My choice would be OPNsense nevertheless. It just has all the bells and whistles one might want. And you are not forced to enable/use them all at once - but they are available when you realize you want some new features next year.


Disclaimer: while I have two virtual OPNsense (redundant with CARP) running since two or three years this is not my main router yet - I struggle to migrate my 6000 lines of shorewall rules. Purely mass inertia... :-(

 

[louie1961]

I like pfSense. I tried OPNsense and just couldn't get used to the UI after using pfSense for a couple of years. I have pfSenseset up so that all DNS goes through pfSense. I have firewall rules to block DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. I also used the hosts over ride feature to sink hole the Firefox DoH canary domain. This forces all DNS requests going to pfSense first and then forwarding to Cloudflare for families (1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3) over TLS. I do some mild ad blocking with pfBlockerNG-Devel, plus I have ublock origin on my browsers. I am really not using it for monitoring, but feel pretty confident that adult content and malicious sites are well blocked.