Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison
by apple4ever on Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:14PM
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> I don't know why people use it either.
I'm shocked this is a common statement on this.
Because its great. Its a fast firewall and router. Its perfect for not overpaying for something like a Cisco ASA.
But in what circumstances? How big is your business?
If you are running a SME office, then there are plenty of decent firewall appliances which are much cheaper than Cisco ASA, and have much lower support overhead than Sense.
If people are doing it for fun or as a hobby great. But given that you can get perfectly good appliances at $500/$1000/$2000 pricepoints, where is th price tradeoff where is makes sense to use Sense?
I looked pretty seriously at using it when I was considering building a outgoing firewall product, when people could share blocklists for IoT devices and things like SmartTVs.
It's pretty well suited for building things like that on top of.
Maybe people are building things like site blockers for schools on top of it?
Maybe it's just a hobbyist/prosumer play?