OPNSense vs. pfSense: Which Firewall Do You Need? OPNSense vs pfSense: Overall OPNSense started in 2014 and has been able to grab part of the market, because of its extensive features and customized firewall solutions pfSense has garnered recognition for its reliable and easy-to-use firewall solution that responds fast to critical security vulnerabilities
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | TrueNAS Community One can look at it as either of two or three choices: pfsense, OPNsense, or commercial hardware + software IF you choose commercial hardware with its included software, you MUST remain vigilant about hardware updates because the home-oriented boxes such as Linksys brand may choose to drop support when newer hardware is released
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 7 | TrueNAS Community Besides that weird odor of rot coming from the closet of pfSense, OPNsense nominally, finally, in theory, supports QAT I have a C3558 system sitting behind me and a C2758 system on its way - as it turns out, being an unreliable mess likely to fail in nasty ways causes prices to decline substantially enough for crazies like me to give it a try!
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 6 | TrueNAS Community Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I'm giving OPNsense another try Rather than try to bootstrap the configuration by uploading a saved pfSense configuration as I did before, I've manually configured it, and it seems to be going more smoothly--though Unbound DNS doesn't seem to be working right now for some reason
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 11 | TrueNAS Community pfSense has direct competition in the form of OPNsense, and some less-direct competition in OpenWRT, Yyos, Nethserver, Arista, and others I do not like Netgate, not one little bit So there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that I'd pay them a subscription; if I hadn't already moved away (with some difficulty, as this thread documents), this
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 3 | TrueNAS Community No errors were reported, but it left the system (and my Internet connection) in an unusable state Enough I put the old SSD with pfSense back in the old box, plugged it back in, and turned it on--I'm back to a solid connection I think I'm done with OPNsense, at least for the time being
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 2 | TrueNAS Community The OPNsense UI is much better It looks better, and it's organized better (can anyone tell me why the config backup is under the Diagnostics menu on pfSense?) It's still kind of scattershot IMO, but it's a big improvement It also seems more responsive on the same hardware The OPNsense installer doesn't support installing on ZFS like pfSense
pfSense vs. OPNSense? | Page 8 | TrueNAS Community That example also names OPNsense and OpenWRT in its product title, but pfSense is the very first word I suppose someone might infer from that that it's an "official pfSense system", but its naming other products right alongside pfSense would seem to make that inference unreasonable