IPS for Newbie

[mayo]

good morning everyone, I have a newbie question ... to protect a home network do I need to enable IPS on the LAN or WAN? should I set the wan address in the interfaces? Last thing, what are the standard rules to apply?
my hardware is an apu2c4. Many thanks to everyone for the advice!

[LouieLouie]

good morning everyone, I have a newbie question ... to protect a home network do I need to enable IPS on the LAN or WAN? should I set the wan address in the interfaces? Last thing, what are the standard rules to apply?
my hardware is an apu2c4. Many thanks to everyone for the advice!

I think there's a default, but if there isn't, I'd enable it on LAN.
re: Wan/interaces:  I think you have to enable it.  You can either manually configure the gateway ip or use DHCP.
re:  standard rules ... https://nguvu.org/pfsense/pfsense-baseline-setup/