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Goodbye PFsense, Hello Opnsense (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After having issues with my Netgate 4100 (see this post) and knowing all the crap Netgate has pulled the last few years, I decided to build a new Firewall capable of 10 gig routing. Hopefully this fixes my issues. If not at least I no longer have to support PFsense.

Pictures:

https://imgur.com/lTmvj4K

https://imgur.com/iVdBMnu

Hardware:

X11SSH-F Motherboard

Xeon E3-1240 v5 CPU

32GB 2400mghz RAM

ZFS Mirrored 128gb SSDs

350W Gold Rated PSU

Connect X3 Dual SFP+ NIC

Should have it production ready by next week. Really not looking forward to reconfiguring all the HAProxy/ VPN stuff, but so far already found quite a few Aliases/Rules I can cleanup.

Thanks for stopping by!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m in a similar boat. Have a Netgate 7100 and it’s garbage. My network is mostly 10gb with a few 25gb devices. The 25gb is on the same VLAN so the router doesn’t come into play there, but it does a bunch across the 10gb devices. The netgate can’t handle it. Just bought an r230 and started setting up vyos. If opnsense can handle the traffic I might just go with that. Having a GUI is nice and I’m already familiar with pfsense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If pfsense can't do it I doublt opnsense can on the same hardware.

You can get pretty close if you throw more powerful hardware at it. I managed to route at least 1.4 million packets per second (~16.8Gb/s, 1500MTU concurrent upload and download summed together) using 4 alder lake P cores on pfsense+ 22.05.