Besides the obvious benefits of choosing your hardware components, there is also the software side of things to consider. Picking a system like pfSense offers you the benefits of years of development ...
Will look into fwbuilder but so far was planning to go with a server distro (no GUI) and was hoping to get by using iptables directly for NAT. With regards to bufferbloat, I had run the DSL reports ...
Currently I have a pfsense router with DHCP/DNS Resolver enabled. Therefore anything in the lease or static mappings can be reached using an FQDN. I use that quite heavily. However, I would like to ...