Re:PfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison
by dijit on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:10PM
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>What I found was a mess of PHP and poor quality plugins. The init scripts were written in PHP, and the plugins modified the init scripts. So plugins could, and did, break the init process, preventing the firewall rules from loading.
Really, really, not my experience and I've been using it for 7~ years.
>I don't think people are using pfSense in production environments
I was running 1% of all internet traffic through dual pair of pfSense firewalls running on some HP 2U servers during Christmas 2011.. (interface was slow as shit with that load though to be honest).
I wouldn't discount it's power. Mostly when you buy something like a Juniper SRX it's similar underneath. It's not like there are common ASICs for firewalls.
Really, really, not my experience and I've been using it for 7~ years.
>I don't think people are using pfSense in production environments
I was running 1% of all internet traffic through dual pair of pfSense firewalls running on some HP 2U servers during Christmas 2011.. (interface was slow as shit with that load though to be honest).
I wouldn't discount it's power. Mostly when you buy something like a Juniper SRX it's similar underneath. It's not like there are common ASICs for firewalls.