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A word to the wise, and this comes from over 20 years experience in IT.

A product that doesn't start well, never ends well.

I was going to install OpnSense in lieu of Pfsense on a box I just built. I built the box with OpnSense in mind. Then when I went to create the install media, I ran into the same issues detailed above.

Y'know what that caused me to do? Install Pfsense.

Because if you're not bright enough to put out a standard image that any tool can put on a disk or a stick, this product cannot be trusted. That's practically a written guarantee that I will have to deal with weirdness later on that some mental child thought would be a better idea than what millions accept as a standard and best practice.

No, I'm not going to run some hokey command line tool that the dweeb responsible for the distribution thought would be a great idea. Thanks for sucking time out of my life I'll never get back, but no worries, it won't happen again.  C'ya!

Thanks Bart!

Yeah I know it will be constrained, and I was exaggerating a bit. I really only want to do one, but was curious if it was possible in case I had to do it. The funny thing is they say the cards are 10gb, but a PCI-E 2.0 8x card, which it is, only does 4gb. So I don't even know where they get off calling it a 10gb card.

The switch I have is a Netgear with LAGG, but I have never been able to get it to work properly. I have a Quanta LB4M coming with 2 10gb for upling. 1 for the OpnSense box, and the other for an unRaid box. But I was hoping an extra port could be used to run a connection to a desktop that does video editing to speed up transfers to the NAS. Ideally I'll find a deal on a used 10GB switch and connect the Quanta to it.

Hello,

I've used PFSense years ago but never OpnSense. I'd like build the box with a few functions, and before I start spending money and time, I want to find out if this will even work.

What I want to do is build an OpnSense box that will connect to my ISP, act as a VPN server so I can access my lan, and act as a VPN client so I can use a service for outbound traffic. If possible, I'd also like it to act as sort of a 10gb switch. How I wanted to accomplish that is by building the box with 3 2-port 10gb cards, and one gigabit port to connect to the ISP. I'd like the 6 10gb ports to act as a switch on the lan. One would go to a 48 port gigabit switch with an uplink, and the others would be for servers and maybe a desktop or two.

Would that be possible? The card I want to use for all 3  is an HP 516937-B21, which as far as I understand it will work with FreeBSD, but I can't be certain until I test it.

As for the rest of the hardware I'll probably start with an i3-4150, and 8gb of mem, with an SSD.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!