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.

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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

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