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General Discussion / Re: Long time pfsense user - new to OPNsense

« on: March 18, 2018, 11:16:02 pm »

Let us know if you see any performance difference between the two firewalls.
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By the way, don't mention that you are using OPNsense on the other forum or you may get banned like I did.

Will do on performance testing.  However, on pfsense V 2.3.4 I was able to get 99.9% of the 1 gigabit throughput on a supermicro 8 core atom CPU with Hardware crypto AES-CBC,AES-XTS,AES-GCM,AES-ICM enabled.  2.4.x went totally to hell and was also causing kernel crashes and no one seemed to care.  I used 4 different methods for the benchmark testing.  I saw some posts here about installing iperf within the FreeBSD instance.  As I understand it, the FreeBSD build is a standard build, as opposed to the custom build being used by pfsense?

I will be mindful of that on the forum, but as far as I am concerned, at this point they are most likely dead router project walking.

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General Discussion / Long time pfsense user - new to OPNsense

« on: March 17, 2018, 02:39:41 pm »

Just wanted to join this forum and leave a short message as an introduction.
As the subject indicates I have been been using pfsense successfully for a number of years, before that Vyatta, and professionally some work with CISCO routers.

Some very recent problems with the pfsense release 2.4.x and talk of narrowing down the supported hardware significantly has motivated me to research open source router projects.  I found several interesting write ups comparing OPNsense to pfsense.  I also read up on the history of why OPNsense was formed and some of the changes that have been occurring and recent changes with pfsense.  At the end of the day I decided to try OPNsense and contribute to the forum.

Recently I did run some interesting IPsec performance benchmarks on pfsense using gbit speed WAN connections.  I posted the results on their users forum and it was nothing but "crickets", which also made me wonder what was going on with the user community there?