PFSense Plus Home - Connect to work VPN
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I run PFSense CE and would like to upgrade to PFSense Plus Home. I work from home and I connect to my work VPN on my laptop. I am wondering if the free PFSense Plus home can be used to connect to my work vpn or is this conisded to be business use?
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@csharp2a it depends on what your work use as a VPN solution, it may seem to be a good idea to do it but it’s a nightmare security wise.
Just use your work’s approved VPN solution on your laptop.
CE and Plus support all the same VPN solutions.
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@nogbadthebad Hi Andy. Thank you for the reply. Let me clarify as I am still working on my first cup of coffee :-). The work VPN on my laptop will be fine through the firewall, but my concern is if this is considered business use per the license agreement even though I work from home.
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@csharp2a said in PFSense Plus Home - Connect to work VPN:
@nogbadthebad Hi Andy. Thank you for the reply. Let me clarify as I am still working on my first cup of coffee :-). The work VPN on my laptop will be fine through the firewall, but my concern is if this is considered business use per the license agreement even though I work from home.
I am pretty sure that would NOT be considered "business use" of the firewall. Business use would be if you had the firewall at work in a commercial environment protecting a business network directly. Probably would be a gray area if you had your own business in your home and ran pfSense for that. But the usage you describe is not what I would consider business use (simply connecting via VPN to your work network to do things from home).
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@csharp2a said in PFSense Plus Home - Connect to work VPN:
I work from home and I connect to my work VPN on my laptop. I am wondering if the free PFSense Plus home can be used to connect to my work vpn or is this conisded to be business use?
I assume this is the laptop of your company. So I'm wondering why you want to connect your whole home network to the company's VPN, since all you need is on this laptop.
I"m also working from home via VPN, but never got the idea to move the VPN over onto my pfSense, even the work firewall is pfSense as well.
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@bmeeks Thanks for the reply. That is what I was thinking all along as I am not running a business.
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@viragomann Thank you for the reply. I restated the question. I am connecting only my laptop to the corporate VPN, not my home network.
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@csharp2a
So you only passing through connection to your work. This is absolutely compatible with the pfSense Plus home license, of course.These things were already discussed here some time ago and there is a document from Netgate in the web, which explicitly confirm the compliance of such a use case.
