#365: Real World Talks: pfsense firewalls for home and business? // Featuring Tom Lawrence

Mar 31, 2022

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Real World Talks: pfsense firewalls for home and business? // Featuring Tom Lawrence Are pfsense firewalls any good for home or business? Which businesses are supported by pfsense? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using pfsense? How big can they go? Lots of questions! Fortunately Tom answers these and many more in this video. // MENU // 00:00 ▶️ Introduction 01:29 ▶️ What pfSense is and Tom's experience with pfSense 03:43 ▶️ Tom and Open Source 04:38 ▶️ The benefit of pfSense being Open Source 05:21 ▶️ Systems Tom has deployed with pfSense 07:22 ▶️ pfSense licensing cost 09:09 ▶️ Using pfSense at home 11:45 ▶️ Virtualization 12:28 ▶️ Raspberry Pi support 13:02 ▶️ Virtualization vs hardware 14:37 ▶️ Tom's recommendation for small/medium businesses 19:43 ▶️ pfSense actual cost (pfSense vs pfSense+) 22:22 ▶️ Reasons not to use pfSense 24:45 ▶️ Tom's biggest pfSense deployment 26:07 ▶️ pfSense above 10G 27:11 ▶️ pfSense and VPN 28:32 ▶️ Handling lots of VPN connections 29:29 ▶️ Advice for starting a consulting business 31:09 ▶️ Technical skills vs sales skills 32:22 ▶️ The benefit of having sales skills 35:58 ▶️ It's about the customer, not the product you use 38:02 ▶️ How Tom got his first customers 40:21 ▶️ Why Tom has a YouTube channel 43:46 ▶️ This video is not sponsored by a VPN company 43:53 ▶️ Skills to learn in 2022 to get started 48:13 ▶️ Story 1 - Hacked client 49:10 ▶️ Story 2 - That will never happen in the real world 51:28 ▶️ Story 3- We've all done it 52:40 ▶️ Final advice 54:15 ▶️ Networking with people // David's SOCIAL // Discord: https://discord.com/invite/usKSyzb Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@davidbombal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal // Tom's SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomLawrenceTech YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTeckn... Website: https://lawrencesystems.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrences... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawrencesys... // MY STUFF // https://www.amazon.com/shop/davidbombal // SPONSORS // Interested in sponsoring my videos? Reach out to my team here: sponsors@davidbombal.com pfsense pfsense router home router home networking open source router raspberry pi pi pfsense pi pfsense raspberry pi opensource linux router pfsense tutorial pfsense setup pfsense basics pfsense course Please note that links listed may be affiliate links and provide me with a small percentage/kickback should you use them to purchase any of the items listed or recommended. Thank you for supporting me and this channel! #pfsense #linux #firewall