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Noob issues!

paramedic233
Okay, I've been trying to set up this UTM for the better part of a week. I have a very angry, frustrated wife who is on my case about me trying to keep the Internet clean for the family! Anyways....
Current setup is the following:
DSL modem
Linksys wrt-1900ac with 2.4 and 5 enabled, giving us multiple wireless networks to use.
Off of the router I have an 8 port network switch to give more wired clients.
My PC

I tried placing the UTM after the DSL modem, and it started knocking everyone offline, hence angry, frustrated wife. Restarted DSL modem so it could grab new MAC address, and after many angry looks disconnected the UTM. 

How can I place the UTM so it filters all of the traffic? What do I need to address in the modem and the router?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am cross eyed from reading this and that!

Thank you.


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    P4 is not really recommended; especially when you want to use web filtering and/or IDS. Specially with high(er) bandwidths the UTM needs a faster CPU. i3 with 8 GB RAM will do a lot better I guess. And while you are in the process of replacing the machine try to find some Intel NIC's too, they often do better than alternatives.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    P4 is not really recommended; especially when you want to use web filtering and/or IDS. Specially with high(er) bandwidths the UTM needs a faster CPU. i3 with 8 GB RAM will do a lot better I guess. And while you are in the process of replacing the machine try to find some Intel NIC's too, they often do better than alternatives.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    The P4 was just something to try it out with. Luckily it was a 3ghz that was a dual core, not that it mattered. Right now I have it running on a Core2Duo Quad 8400 with 6gb of RAM.  Running very smoothly with the amount of clients I have on it (wooohooo, 4), but doing the job I need it to do. Going to add in a wireless client later today.
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