Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison
by auslander on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:06PM
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Is it free to use? Is it open source?
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Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison
by blattimwind on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:04PM
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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.