arkime VS pfSense

Arkime: https://arkime.com/ Packet capture and search

Also consider running full PCAP collection with https://arkime.com/ so you can monitor your past network traffic. That has come in handy many times for security and troubleshooting, and doesn't require as much horsepower as you might think.

Anyone using Arkime? https://arkime.com/

dns && ip.src==x.y.z.w Note that this display filter will not display the DNS replies for the requests sent by x.y.z.w if you want those as well then it will be dns && ip.addr==x.y.z.w Although DNS will be displayed in upper case in Wireshark, it has to be in lower case in the display filter, that said, like others said based on your exact needs and the size of your resulting pcap / pcapng file you may want to look at capture filters, finally if you are dealing with multiple gegabytes file(s) you may want to take a look at another tool like Arkime (formerly moloch) https://arkime.com/

Full PCAP's? Look at https://arkime.com/ or network miner. Arkime is probably more what you're looking for. But I love network miner

I used moloch which is now https://arkime.com/. It used to be free and was a great tool for pcaps. Uses elastic underneath.

Arkime is secure, scaleable, indexed packet capture and search tool that can improve your network security by providing greater visibility. This open-source tool stores and indexes network traffic in standard PCAP format. Our thanks for the suggestion goes to Security_Chief_Odo.

I would suggest instead of graylog look into something like this https://arkime.com/

One option is Firewalla Gold Plus, or you could buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself.

Download and install pfsense as a virtual machine or partition: https://www.pfsense.org Configure it with the rules you want: https://youtu.be/VAGFGppSt74 Play with it, but be careful because it will block all traffic unless you check everything properly.

Another option is Firewalla, or buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself. Two similar concepts, with the cost being either money or your DIY time. A lot of Firewalla users say that it's much easier for home use than pfSense/OPNsense, so you might find it worthwhile to spend a little more on it upfront and have to tinker less.

If you want firewall, I think you can use https://www.pfsense.org/ or https://opnsense.org/ , maybe running on an old PC or a Raspberry Pi. Not sure.

I've recently started using OPNsense. It's similar to pfSense, but seems to be considered a little more user-friendly.

For most router issues, I recommend people always put them in to dumb bridge mode and put a proper firewall like pfsense or opnsense as your gateway.

I have found that my historical average packet loss is about 0.02%. Something distinctly changed around 4/20 of this year, and now the average packet loss has gone up to 0.05% with spikes even higher, associated with periods of elevated ping times. It rarely did that before. Typically the IPv6 stack has more problems than v4 (especially an incident of packet loss on 4/28), and neither has been trouble-free since I started service in early 2020. My data comes from a pfSense installation.

I have done this using the Pfsense