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Neat! I was unaware the GitHub issue tracker was in use.

In an effort to help new users get the best possible performance, I think it would be beneficial to detect the CPU's capabilities. When an i386 instance is running on a x86_64 bit compatible CPU, it would be nice if something along the line of "64 bit CPU detected. Click here" would print in the CPU Type section of the dashboard.

Are VPN accelerator cards still a thing in the x86 firewall industry? Does OPNsnese support any such hardware?

Since the industry has depreciated the use of SSL (and packages such as openSSL have evolved to support TLS), I think it is important to replace all mentions of SSL with TLS or some combination of the acronyms such as "SSL/TLS" "TLS/SSL" or "TLS (SSL)".

The usage of terms that reflect the current technology should increase accessibility to the underlying concepts for users new to the technology.

Pages like system_advanced_admin.php should be the first to see the change.

Please consider expanding system certificate management to enable one-click generation and signing of TLS web-certs via the Let's Encrypt intuitive for the administration interface. The Certificate Authority is now widely trusted and many stable ACME clients exist. Of course, automated cert. replacement is also important.

Franco -

Than you for the warm welcome, I appreciate your guidance in the project's Freenode channel yesterday while I was getting my feet wet with OPNsense. I hope to contribute to the overall project quality assurance process, in addition to the projects documented Q&As. Does the project have a need or gap in testing and quality assurance where I can jump in?

Also, which discussions are appropriate for the mailing list and webforum? I'll jump in either or both.

- - Mitchell

Hello OPNsense community -

I'm dropping into the forum this weekend to introduce myself. I've been lurking since the m0n0.ch homepage posted a link to OPNsense. The work being done here seems sustainable. I hope to become a positive contributor to the community.

A little background about myself, my $DAYJOB is currently focused on customer facing network operations and support at a regional, diverse and high performance Internet network. Outside, I'm engaged in a number of projects ranging from volunteer wireless networks to medium-scale hospitality deployments. Projects like OPNsense support such diverse range of projects from virtual routing to site-wide NAT that I feel compelled to share my experience, if the community will accept the feedback loop. While I can offer little programing support, I can offer extensive QA and testing feedback. I'm also able to pickup some of the documentation role as needed.

I understand that many of the use case that I may envision or attempt may not be fully supported. What are the preferred platform to discuss potential bugs vs. non-supported configurations and to developing feature ideas into scoped feature requests?

- - Mitchell