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9 months agoNot really sure what your use case is here, but from a security perspective (and speaking as a network engineer), I would highly suggest you run a firewall/router on a separate device.
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Not really sure what your use case is here, but from a security perspective (and speaking as a network engineer), I would highly suggest you run a firewall/router on a separate device.
Any reason you don’t want to use something like OPNsense?
No problem, happy to help! Figured this might be the case, since I run into this situation a lot at work.
Are they Windows PCs? If so, Windows firewall blocks pings by default.
Definitely spot on for network engineering.