Oh Boy - Where I am going to start ...
Ok, I am a brand new OPNSense user since yesterday. before that I was using pfSense.
I must say that I m impressed by OPNSense so far. I use a Mini PC as a firewall / router and it has those Realtek Network adapters. In pfsense I had disconnections every 10 minutes, or the link would just go down until I reboot. With OPNSense .... Just worked out of the box , even support hardware offloading with no issues and I can route the full Gigabit speed with super low latency. On pfsense, it was just awful....
The box i have has a modest Celeron J4125. and 8Gb of RAM with 128Gb NVMe I plan to build my own small form factor router with intel Nic but not now because I do not have a lot of devices yet. Altough this is a low cost , low power cpu - I can run Suricata on it and insight and when I fully load my line at 1Gbps , the CPU barely gets 50% on use. Impressive.
The UI is snappy , intuitive and it just works out of the box.
I will be around asking for some questions probably. I am not an a networking expert but I learn.
Thanks for Reading !
Jean-Simon
The latest drivers available in FSB support RTL drivers much better IMO.... OPNSense gots them in!
Yes it is very night and day since i switched to OPNsense. Altough Intel NIC are really better but more expensive, I am very impressed of the performance.
On pfsense it was slow and clunky. on opnsense it just works flawlessly.