{"id":65,"date":"2020-06-24T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianlloyd.tech\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:35:17","slug":"migrating-to-pfsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianlloyd.tech\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Migrating to PFSense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one of my tech projects during the COVID-19 world quarantine, I migrated to using PFSense as my Home &amp; Home Lab Router. The purpose of this project was to seperate my Home Lab from my Home Network through V-LANs and to also have better Firewall control for my Internet facing services. This has worked out very well and I am happy with the network control and results of this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homebrew Router Specs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dell OptiPlex 390 (Mini Tower)<\/li><li>500 GB SSD<\/li><li>8GB RAM<\/li><li>1 Gigabit on-board LAN port<\/li><li>Intel PCI-E 4 port Gigabit network card.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I migrated to using PFSense as my Home &#038; Home Lab Router.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-hosted","category-servers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Migrating to PFSense | Brian&#039;s 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