New Proxmox user here: Which firewall should I use?

[tommyhil]

Hi,

TLDR: Proxmox Firewall vs OPNsense vs pfSense?

Lets make it short: I'm addicted to IT, but not a network expert. I thought it could be a good idea to use opnsense instead of pfsense, cause opnsense is community driven and receives more updates. On the other side I read that pfsense fixes security issues faster. But right now, I'm a little bit overwhelmed and I haven't found an up to date tutorial yet.

In the end I failed to setup opnsense by pure intuition, but I came across the fact that Proxmox itself includes a firewall as well and I'm wondering if this could be an advantage and good alternative?

Or is it worth to dig myself deeper into pfsense or opnsense?

 

[encryptedserver]

I use Proxmox firewall

 

[UdoB]

Or is it worth to dig myself deeper into pfsense or opnsense?

Of course the answer is: it depends!

As long as the features of the PVE firewall is sufficient I would stay with it - just to avoid the overhead of an additional, mission critical system which you need to maintain.

But look again at the feature set: opnSense has a zillion bells and whistles, so if those tantalize you... go for it