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?
 
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... :-(
 
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