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Just wanted to say, that I'm about to embark on 170+ OPNsense installs each with lots of rules and this feature is sorely missing.
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Hardware and Performance / Re: Will AES-NI support be a CPU requirement for future OPNsense releases?
May 03, 2017, 01:20:39 PM
I just signed up to the forums and I'm considering switching to OPNSense due in small part to the AES-NI situation with pfSense 2.5 but mainly due to the way they conduct themselves on HN and Reddit regarding the change.
I noticed also that they're not longer supporting 32-bit in 2.4 but made an exception for their own ARM SG1000 (32-bit ARM CPU) it also doesn't feature AES-NI (it has its own cryptographic hardware that implements AES in hardware) but it too will get release 2.5.
But of course if we (the community) wish to use 2.4 on 32-bit we're not allowed, nor can we use cryptographic accelerators or architectures that have their own crypto hardware which isn't AES-NI.
So I have to agree that this whole situation feels like planned obsolescence to get community members to purchase branded hardware.
And that is why I'm here really, I don't like the way things are going there and I've woken up to the realities that they're moving away from openness to make money.
Regardless though I'm happy to be here and learning about OPNSense.
I noticed also that they're not longer supporting 32-bit in 2.4 but made an exception for their own ARM SG1000 (32-bit ARM CPU) it also doesn't feature AES-NI (it has its own cryptographic hardware that implements AES in hardware) but it too will get release 2.5.
But of course if we (the community) wish to use 2.4 on 32-bit we're not allowed, nor can we use cryptographic accelerators or architectures that have their own crypto hardware which isn't AES-NI.
So I have to agree that this whole situation feels like planned obsolescence to get community members to purchase branded hardware.
And that is why I'm here really, I don't like the way things are going there and I've woken up to the realities that they're moving away from openness to make money.
Regardless though I'm happy to be here and learning about OPNSense.
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