Hello All! I have a rather large residence that I am attempting to set-up with ClearOS and Wifi. Previously I was using Google WIFI with a couple of their Mesh add-on devices. For a 2 story residence with a basement, this worked well to blanket the entire home with a good signal. (Router on the top floor and one mesh unit on first floor and basement) However, it didn't provide much for security purposes and left my IOT devices with little protection.
I really would like a robust firewall solution with UTM that can provide protection on my home network. I have tried PFSENSE back in the day and recently CUJO, however pfsense ran into issues with hardware and CUJO doesn't allow for much advanced set-up or insight into what they are blocking. In addition, my Google WIFI can only function in bridge mode with CUJO so I lose the mesh capabilities.
I am looking for suggestions to make this set-up work a bit better and if there are any options to set-up a mesh network with ClearOS? Thanks for any suggestions.
I really would like a robust firewall solution with UTM that can provide protection on my home network. I have tried PFSENSE back in the day and recently CUJO, however pfsense ran into issues with hardware and CUJO doesn't allow for much advanced set-up or insight into what they are blocking. In addition, my Google WIFI can only function in bridge mode with CUJO so I lose the mesh capabilities.
I am looking for suggestions to make this set-up work a bit better and if there are any options to set-up a mesh network with ClearOS? Thanks for any suggestions.
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You could simply create a server PC with two NICs, having ClearOS installed and put in gateway mode. One NIC (deemed the external NIC) connects to your ISP and the other NIC (deemed the LAN NIC) connects to your mesh network's hub/router. Put the mesh router in bridge mode and let ClearOS do the work of firewalling, intrusion prevention, antimalware, and content filtering (see the ClearOS Marketplace for your choices). -
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i to have a large home, also 2 businesses run inside my (wife and I) home as well.. last i checked i think wa about 100+ devices from cams, tv sip phones and servers including few homes in the area that use my internet fiber line.
I do not use google wifi as you are limited what you can do, i use open-mesh devices for wifi "omp5-ac" which work perfect, my home i have 4 of these setup is all i need for 4600sq home on cat5e to every room and every device on HP POE switch direct, I use virtualization server and setup my linux cam devices for all cams (7) and another vm for ClearOS with dedicated dual nic cards for clearos
32ch 3.1 Modem > WAN card
Lan > Switch
Switch POE > Cams & SIP Phones
NONE POE side of switch > everything else
everything on UPS
I ran "cat6" to each home (4) and on my switch i capped them @ 10mbps with 2 wifi omp5-ac per home which covers my fiber line payment - vlan ip's ranges per home
0 downtime, pass 1yr unless i make a change.
I avg 50 - 100mbps per day, my fiber line is 400mbps down 50 up
no problems at all, i modded a bit my clearos and one of them was dnsmasq. I edit to redirect any nxdomain to my own buildin search engine so anyone in my network goes to a failed domain or an domain that is blocked redirect to my own search engine to promote my own biz
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