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Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists (social.graves.cl)

submitted 2 years ago by alvaro@social.graves.cl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’re not checked against every rule. First pass it stops.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, maybe could have been clearer.

I was very vividly remembering a VERY SMART client I had a while ago that had like 600 rules blocking all manner of ports and protocols and IPs, and wondering why everything performed like dogshit.

Sure, it'll go until it hits the first match, but if you have enough rules, you're going to be churning through an awful lot of cpu getting everything to the first match.

OP may not have been intending to do something quite that uh, special, but people do funky things.