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Switching from PFsense to OPNsense? Here’s a basic

Switching from PFsense to OPNsense? Here’s a basic setup

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PFsense has made some changes to how licensing works for the Home-lab version which has completely killed it off. People are moving over to OPNsense as its a open source firewall. In this video I show you some of the basic configuration to get your firewall up and running

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  1. How can I automatically convert the Configs File from Pfsense to OPNsense? UPROOT by GeekVisit. 👍👍👍
    Pssst! Rubicon (Netgate) is one of many shell companies from a joint venture between USA and Germany intelligence agencies. They use bearer shares so that no names appeared in registration documents. Recently, the agencies need to allocate funds because of recent wars. So, Pfsense+ is now – $399 – $129 , no more free sh*t. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  3. Thanks for the video. Maybe you could make a video on how to correctly configure the unifi dream machine with the Opnsense firewall. opnsense would be like an additional filter to the unifi dream machine. Opnsense firewall rules are also

  4. Great video on how to setup OPNSense. But two things remain unclear to me:
    1) Why? I assume there in an advantage to OPNSense over PFSense. What is it?
    2) I see several people recommending Protectli hardware, and I see that it has better performance for the money. But isn't it a Chinese product? If so, isn't it risky to trust our whole security to hardware that could have been required to contain embedded spyware for the Chinese government?

  5. After over 10 years on pfSense, our consulting firm have transitioned to OPNsense. The drama throughout the years with pfSense and its owner is just too much. Thanks for the final nudge pfSense management. There are alternatives which they don't understand.

  6. CE is completely free but is missing some mild features than the PfSense+ 99.99% of users won't use these, they are more "nice to have" and really aimed at big enterprise environments. I was running Plus until they decided to make this change and all I did was backup to the XML file, reinstall CE and then drop the XML from PfSense+ back-up file onto my CE install (files are compatible at this time). Was a 10 minute process to switch back. CE Will remain free according to Netgate but the reason they made the change was because of Chinese vendors abusing the Home-Lab license of the Plus and selling it pre-installed on their cheap router boxes. I get the difficult position they were in trying to do something good for the user base. I would use OPNSense but I find their menus super confusing and I have built quite the setup on PfSense and I didn't want to have to spend hours trying to learn this different interface. It is nice that OPNSense supports more hardware choices though. I wish PfSense would do this but it's not a huge deal at the end of the day.

  7. Lol i have 2 firewall boxes running opnsense and pfsense. I am trying to let them have the same functionality and i must say pfsense is the winner up to know. Basic functionality both score equally vlan lan etc etc. If you really want to make a difference then make a good video about adblocking, HAproxy and Acme licensing. That are the things that pfsense does better and there are more tutorials about that.

  8. A series of OPNsense videos would be nice. On the Lawrence Systems forum, several people mentioned the lack of tutorials for OPNsense, so many of us would like to see them. (edit) I'm hedging bets with pfsense, going to set up an OPNsense system just so I'm prepared. Another video I'd like would be installation and configuration of e2guardian on OPNsense, it's not horrible on pfsense, but I've read there is no gui for the settings on OPNsense.

  9. I've lost all respect for Netgate and had little to begin with, to not be overdramatically but they've been closed-source for a long time but still say they're open-source.

    I don't get why they would like to annihilate thousands of beta testers who have been active in their community for years.

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