pfSense VS pfsense-api

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

this unofficial API for pfSense, which only has endpoints for pfSense, which means I'll probably have to learn and edit the code to add my own endpoints for all these packages

I’ve enjoyed using this API for querying pfsense configs from the command line - https://github.com/jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api - you can also use it to reconfigure things.

Found this: https://github.com/jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api

I don't know if you've looked at this project jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api but I have found it to be extremely useful as a pretty solid API. I haven't done anything with multiple WAN connections and changing the gateways with it but I've done quite a bit with DHCP reservations with it and it's been solid. It's not an official package from the repos and I've found that you don't want to jump on updates immediately after they come out but he's been really good at getting updates out very quickly after releases.

There are some 3rd party solutions, but they were pricey or not that secure. In the end we've opted to build out our own base config, and then we leverage an API add on (https://github.com/jaredhendrickson13/pfsense-api). This automates our backups and some other things.