News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. Parent comment

Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by blattimwind on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:02PM (#17431288)
If you need a GUI, just use something like Halon's SecurityRouter.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by auslander on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:06PM (#17431311)
Is it free to use? Is it open source?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by blattimwind on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:04PM (#17431605)
Depends / it's source available AFAIK.

Some time ago I looked at this sort of thing (simple management + status GUI for a router), and pfsense & friends are just huge, bloated pieces of mess that I really don't want on critical infra. Securityrouter OTOH came across as one of the very few frontends actually designed for security (see their docs). (Also it doesn't include a the full B/S suite)

In the end I didn't choose any GUI and just put a Debian on a box. I don't really know any of the BSDs and it certainly wasn't worth more of my time to fool around with a small piece of infra that's going to be ignored >99.99 % of the time.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by auslander on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:09PM (#17431626)
> it's source available AFAIK

AFAIK it is not.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by SanDiegoSalsa on Monday July 02, 2018 @11:31AM (#17442503)
Halon pivoted away from this market. Last I looked it was a secure email play.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison by blattimwind on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:47PM (#17443836)
Wasn't SR always a side project for them? Still gets releases, though.
[ Parent | on HN ]