Right now my home network still runs on a classic consumer Linksys router — it’s been reliable for years, but it’s starting to feel like the weak link in an otherwise increasingly serious self-hosted setup. I’ve decided it’s time to replace it with pfSense as my main firewall/router — giving me proper VLANs, traffic shaping, intrusion detection (via Suricata or Sensei), detailed logging, and much finer control over what devices can talk to each other .

This isn’t implemented yet — it’s still in the planning phase — but the goal is to turn an old mini-PC (or maybe grab a Protectli/Beelink box) into a dedicated pfSense appliance, connect it as the edge device, and finally move my router into bridge mode. Once that’s done, my home network will sit behind real enterprise-grade routing/firewall features instead of basic NAT and port forwarding.