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Globgogabgalab
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Should I run 2 firewalls?
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January 01, 2021, 06:25:35 pm »
I currently have a UniFI Firewall in place and I plan to get a OPNsense firewall mainly for a VPN.
Setup:
Modem - OPNsense - UniFI - VLANS (Rules made by UniFi)
Are there any advantages of running a setup with 2 firewalls or should I move everything to the new (more powerful) OPNsense firewall?
Thanks!
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banym
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Re: Should I run 2 firewalls?
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January 01, 2021, 06:47:51 pm »
Depends on your needs and your configuration.
Two similar configured Firewalls don't increase security that much if you don't setup special monitoring or services on each box.
Maybe an a attack vector is mitigated by different operation systems kernels but at the same time the attack surface increases because you maybe can target two systems.
For a normal network I would go with one firewall and use the more powerful for VPN.
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Globgogabgalab
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Re: Should I run 2 firewalls?
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January 02, 2021, 03:15:15 pm »
Thank you for the advice!
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