Since I have an ESX box with multiple NICs running 24x7 at home, I've been using both, pfSense [1] and OPNSense [2] on a VM for years, with excellent performanc

Since I have an ESX box with multiple NICs running 24x7 at home, I've been using both, pfSense [1] and OPNSense [2] on a VM for years, with excellent performance, stability and top notch features. Combine that with 2 UniFi APs, multiple SSIDs each landing on separate VLANs, all converging on the router VM as separate "interfaces", so you can very selectively do policy-based routing per MAC address, and whitelist/blacklist IoT devices from accessing the Internet or specific sites. It gives you a huge amount of control that is very hard to do otherwise. [1] https://www.pfsense.org/ https://www.pfsense.org/ [2] https://opnsense.org/ https://opnsense.org/