I rate OPNsense. I’ve not tried pfsense, but I use Enterprise-level firewalls daily.
When you’re used to Palo Alto, Cisco or CheckPoint firewalls, it is a lot harder to use, and the interface isn’t great, and had fewer features, but for free (and cheap support if you need it), it’s pretty amazing.
Upgrading to new versions is seamless, and once when something happened and it broken, I reinstalled it from the .ISO, uploaded my backed up .xml config file, and it was back to normal.
It’s more than adequate to use for my home internet connection and all the services I run in my DMZ etc.
Chewie@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I rate OPNsense. I’ve not tried pfsense, but I use Enterprise-level firewalls daily. When you’re used to Palo Alto, Cisco or CheckPoint firewalls, it is a lot harder to use, and the interface isn’t great, and had fewer features, but for free (and cheap support if you need it), it’s pretty amazing. Upgrading to new versions is seamless, and once when something happened and it broken, I reinstalled it from the .ISO, uploaded my backed up .xml config file, and it was back to normal. It’s more than adequate to use for my home internet connection and all the services I run in my DMZ etc.