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pfsense is open washing (github.com)
submitted 6 days ago by artiman@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] troed@fedia.io 23 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This bugs me. I selected between pfSense and OpnSense a few years ago and got the impression pfSense's support and UI was better. I'm not looking forward to having reconfigure everything if switching :/

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago

Been very happy with OPNsense since switching a few years ago.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

I made the switch. It was a good excuse to clean up my config though.

I ended up installing it in a VM initially, just so I could configure it how I needed before going live. Then made a config backup, installed opnsense, then restored the config (after changing the interface names)

I'll never go back to pfsense.

[–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 8 points 6 days ago

There are some convertors that can wrangle a pfsense config into opnsense. I had the exact same issue and exact same thought about two years ago. But I do like Opnsense much, much more nowadays.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Tried OpenSense twice, always fell back to pfSense.

Plus, work gave me a rackmount Netgate appliance, so I'm on it until that unit dies.