Comment on Pfsense, Opensense and OpenWRT - what's the deal?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
pfSense = Firewall and router system based on FreeBSD. Has both open source and commercial versions. Built for SMB to Enterprise uses. Extremely powerful with all of the bells and whistles you’d expect from a professional firewall product.
OPNSense = Basically pfSense with a different UI. It’s a fork of pfSense. Much of the same capability, but is built by a smaller company.
OpenWRT = Replacement firmware for embedded devices (as well as x86). It’s open source WiFi router firmware that runs on tens of thousands of devices. Many vendors will even base their custom firmware on OpenWRT and put a different skin on it (GL.iNet, for example).
Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Perfect, thanks for summing it up for me! <3
TCB13@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That explanation is misleading. OpenWRT does firewalling and routing very well.