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Goodbye PFsense, Hello Opnsense (alien.top)

submitted 9 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] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Once you start, you'll find the conversion and resetup goes by quickly. I migrated to a dedicated supermicro box as well, in hopes that PFSense could do 10gig without issues. I eventually moved my 6+ year old PFSense build from a VM over to the dedicated box..... and was disappointed. Then PFSense pulled their stunt and I finally just said F-this and rebuilt it.

1 hour - it took me 1 hour to wipe PFSense, figure out the new menus of OPNSense and get everything back online. What I had dragged my feet on for so long, turned out to be a big nothing burger. Zero issues, 10gig speedtests just fine, zero trouble with the NIC and great performance overall.

I'll leave with this - fuck PFSense, what they pulled was rediculous and an insult to homelabs and folks who like to bring production tech into their homes. They turned a great product, one I've implimented into many commercial setups, into a joke - who could ever trust them again?! I'll never recommend them and I won't be looking back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I used to sport pfsense decals on my back truck window for years. Like you, had deployed them commercially for years before that, and proudly.

After all the bs, I'd look at those stickers with combo of nostalgia and remorse.

Had a local lawn company out to do our yard last summer and they managed to wing something into that back window and shatter it, requiring me to replace it. (Lawn company paid).

Realized I was really happy with the new window cause the stickers were gone.

Fuck pfsense.

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