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15.7 Legacy Series / Realtek NIC's Issues (With Resolution) + General Thoughts on OPNsense
« on: November 04, 2015, 11:59:26 pm »
Hello there,
I've been looking for an alternative to pfSense for a while now, trying various firewalls. I have to say, i'm very impressed with OPNsense so far!
I just wanted to document some issues I had with my installation in the hopes that this may help someone else.
I decided to move away from using my old WatchGuard Firebox X1250e due to various reasons and wanted something a little smaller. I decided to use an ITX board I had (Gigabyte GA-B75N) which has dual Gb NIC's. Though this was ideal for a small firewall. first tried pfSense on it, the interfaces didn't work. Did the same for OPNsese, same result. The fix was found over on the freebsd forums by a chap named 'rrichard' who suggested the following:
/sbin/ifconfig re0 down
/sbin/ifconfig re0 up
this worked (Though I had to do the same for the re1 interface too)
I know in pfSense I could use shellcmd to add startup commands but it seems to me that OPNsense doesn't have package manager functionality. I'm sure their is some way of dealing with adding commands to startup but I think I'll stick to what I know
I really wish OPNsense had some sort of package repository like pfSense does. Without it, this is ultimately a deal breaker for me as there's various packages which I use & cannot do without. My biggest is Reverse Proxy (squid). I have multiple VM's that are outward facing & I like the idea of having the firewall deal with routing the traffic as it is coming in. Plus it's all done in a nice GUI so life is easy
Overall I enjoyed my experience with OPNsense, it seems like a fresh approach to firewall appliances, seems to have a strong community & the interface is sexy as hell too! So I will definitely be keeping my eye on this!
Kind Regards,
Curtis.
I've been looking for an alternative to pfSense for a while now, trying various firewalls. I have to say, i'm very impressed with OPNsense so far!
I just wanted to document some issues I had with my installation in the hopes that this may help someone else.
I decided to move away from using my old WatchGuard Firebox X1250e due to various reasons and wanted something a little smaller. I decided to use an ITX board I had (Gigabyte GA-B75N) which has dual Gb NIC's. Though this was ideal for a small firewall. first tried pfSense on it, the interfaces didn't work. Did the same for OPNsese, same result. The fix was found over on the freebsd forums by a chap named 'rrichard' who suggested the following:
/sbin/ifconfig re0 down
/sbin/ifconfig re0 up
this worked (Though I had to do the same for the re1 interface too)
I know in pfSense I could use shellcmd to add startup commands but it seems to me that OPNsense doesn't have package manager functionality. I'm sure their is some way of dealing with adding commands to startup but I think I'll stick to what I know
I really wish OPNsense had some sort of package repository like pfSense does. Without it, this is ultimately a deal breaker for me as there's various packages which I use & cannot do without. My biggest is Reverse Proxy (squid). I have multiple VM's that are outward facing & I like the idea of having the firewall deal with routing the traffic as it is coming in. Plus it's all done in a nice GUI so life is easy
Overall I enjoyed my experience with OPNsense, it seems like a fresh approach to firewall appliances, seems to have a strong community & the interface is sexy as hell too! So I will definitely be keeping my eye on this!
Kind Regards,
Curtis.