Comment on Just noticed yesterday pfsense upgrade to 2.7.0 was out

zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• theRealBassist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get the gist of what Opnsense is from the name, but what are some of the practical benefits for a small home labber to use it over PFsense?

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The UI is way, way better. I also haven’t had opnsense corrupt itself, but PFsense did that to me twice in the five or so years I used it.

    Other than that there aren’t a lot of functional differences. There was some drama years ago with the guy who runs PFsense and I guess he’s kind of a giant asshole, that’s what led to the fork, but I don’t remember the details.

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• sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I got it all configured before I figured out the benefits and haven't bothered to migrate since both of them basically do the job for me.

  • zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I've used opnsense in other applications since where I've wanted a good firewall that runs on x86 hardware.
  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really, the same reason I didn't upgrade for 3 months, it's a piece of invisible infrastructure unless something is wrong. I only noticed the upgrade because I was going in to add another static dhcp binding for a new server.