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Pfsense, Opensense and OpenWRT - what's the deal? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hiya, just getting into networking and recently completed my Tp-link Omada stack, which I'm very pleased with. Have heard great thing about all three mentioned services above, but struggle to understand which to go for. Do they have different use cases? Is one easier than the other? Which one is recommended to begin with?

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[–] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

pfsense and opnsense are very similar. The pfsense devs has acted like jackasses towards the opnsense gang. They are both great for a router/firewall/vpn device. I would use external access points with them.
I think there are more addons to pfsense than opnsense.

OpenWrt is great when it comes to WiFi, but I find it much less intuitive to use for router/firewall parts. Could be that I am used to the way pfsense and opnsense do things.

Neither do switching from what I know, so pair the router with a switch of your choice.

[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The pfsense devs has acted like jackasses towards the opnsense gang.

And toward their users. Ask the wrong question on the pfSense subreddit or forum and expect to get lit up. The Opnsense community is much more helpful and inviting in my experience.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was the reason I switched from pfsense to opnsense about 4 years ago

[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Also worth noting that pfsense was ready and intending to knowingly ship a broken and insecure wireguard integration