Are you me? Haha! Our setups are very similar, except I've stuck with pfsense (though I'm debating switching to opnsense as I upgrade to 10g). But the saving every watt to keep the wifey happy can't bemofe on point for me. Haha.
ryknow
joined 1 year ago
I'm seriously debating switching to opnsense. I'm in the process of upgrading my homelab to 10g, and wonder how pfsense will play with my 10g nics. I think I read before that pfsense plays with it fine.... But if not, I'll jump to opnsense.
I also wonder how long pfsense will keep things going for CE... Seems like the writing is on the wall that it isn't going to last, but we'll see.
How do you like vyos? I had looked into it, and it seemed a little cumbersome last time I looked at it. I believe it's entirely cli? I suppose that's not a bad thing, but sometimes a gui is nice.
I've run pfsense both ways. I'm currently running (and have been for a number of years now) running pfsense as a vm within Proxmox. I personally love it, but my setup is a little different then most. I have a dedicated server running promox strictly for pfsense (then have three Proxmox nodes for my cluster). I have a quad nic that I pass through to the vm and this has been Rock solid for years. I've not had a single issue.
In my stack I'm also using PBS, and I love the backup process (and or restoring a backup). Have a dedicated Proxmox machine for pfsense means I can shut down servers in my homelab without taking the internet down.
Running pfsense bare metal never gave me any issues, and going with a vm was more about the exercise of just doing it, and playing with pci pass through. Once it was setup and I setup the backups, it was a no-brainer for me to keep it running that way.
Yeah, I assume most things will work, but I know Linus just recently did a video showing that they were having issues with their 10gbe nics, which was driver support within pfsense. Switched to opnsense and problem was solved. I don't think I'll have any issues, cause I'm using older cards anyway (connectx-2's and connectx-3's).
I currently have a mix of mikrotik and ubiquiti. I've been dumping my ubiquiti gear in favor of mikrotik, just because I want any of my switches to have at least a couple 10gbe ports, and mikrotik is cheaper that ubiquiti for the switches I need.
I haven't had the mikrotik switches long, and I'm really only using one while I'm waiting for the rest of my 10gbe nics to arrive. But the one I'm using is quiet, and just worked (as a switch should). No surprises.