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General Discussion / Re: A fork of opnsense?
« on: April 12, 2023, 02:27:44 pm »
Hello to all,
I would like to clarify couple of things in this thread.
Couple of precision here:
Brief history facts
ToDoo (now DynFi) was one of the leading distributor of pfSense in France from 2008 until 2014, back when OPNsense didn't exist. So we share some common root with OPNsense.
DynFi was a key company behind the disclosure of the OPNsense.com scam organized by Netgate owners. Thanks to our deep knowledge of DNS (we maintain primary DNS for a country) and our specialized brand lawyer and WIPO, we have helped Deciso release the "Domain by Proxy" lock and recover this domain name. This was a huge victory for OPNsense team. We got 2 lines of credits in an obscure post at the time.
In 2015 / 2016 while we were early partners (and sponsors) of the project, we came and visited Deciso's team to discuss our will to develop a "Central Management solution" which didn't exist at the time and we were coldly welcome with a "we do not want any partner to develop this". Fair enough, but at the time and for the next four years and to a certain extent until now, there is no On Premise Central Management solution beside our own DynFi Manager.
Considering this will to not to share anything with any partner as far as development is concerned, which choices were we left with ?
Development of DynFi Manager
So back in 2017 what could have been a nice team work, clearly became the end of a partnership.
We drew the consequences of the rejection of cooperation on the Manager part and started the development of our DynFi Manager. The first version was officially launched in 2018.
There has been more than 60 releases and patches since we first launch the DynFi Manager in 2018.
Development of DynFi Firewall
We have started developing the DynFi Firewall back in 2019 because we thought It could interesting to have a distinct platform with no HardenedBSD in It, but rather directly based on the FBSD kernel. Turns out we were right because few months after we have started our own fork, OPNsense shifted back to the FreeBSD kernel.
I must add that we have our own distinct compilation platform and that we did some upstream of OPNsense code in the beginning (but didn't Deciso did the exact same thing with pfSense back in 2015 ?), the more we move forward the less upstream we do. Unfortunately we didn't had the chance to have GonzoPancho screaming on the whole internet so social marketing for our distro is still discrete at this stage…
I won't discuss future plans of our distro on the OPNsense forum, this seems like not the exact right place to do that ;-) but there clearly will have some very interesting stuff offered that will move us on our own trajectory…
Who is DynFi?
No, we are not an obscure agency of the French government, but a Paris based company created back in 2001.
Hope this post helps understand who we are and where we come from.
I would like to clarify couple of things in this thread.
Couple of precision here:
Brief history facts
ToDoo (now DynFi) was one of the leading distributor of pfSense in France from 2008 until 2014, back when OPNsense didn't exist. So we share some common root with OPNsense.
DynFi was a key company behind the disclosure of the OPNsense.com scam organized by Netgate owners. Thanks to our deep knowledge of DNS (we maintain primary DNS for a country) and our specialized brand lawyer and WIPO, we have helped Deciso release the "Domain by Proxy" lock and recover this domain name. This was a huge victory for OPNsense team. We got 2 lines of credits in an obscure post at the time.
In 2015 / 2016 while we were early partners (and sponsors) of the project, we came and visited Deciso's team to discuss our will to develop a "Central Management solution" which didn't exist at the time and we were coldly welcome with a "we do not want any partner to develop this". Fair enough, but at the time and for the next four years and to a certain extent until now, there is no On Premise Central Management solution beside our own DynFi Manager.
Considering this will to not to share anything with any partner as far as development is concerned, which choices were we left with ?
Development of DynFi Manager
So back in 2017 what could have been a nice team work, clearly became the end of a partnership.
We drew the consequences of the rejection of cooperation on the Manager part and started the development of our DynFi Manager. The first version was officially launched in 2018.
There has been more than 60 releases and patches since we first launch the DynFi Manager in 2018.
Development of DynFi Firewall
We have started developing the DynFi Firewall back in 2019 because we thought It could interesting to have a distinct platform with no HardenedBSD in It, but rather directly based on the FBSD kernel. Turns out we were right because few months after we have started our own fork, OPNsense shifted back to the FreeBSD kernel.
I must add that we have our own distinct compilation platform and that we did some upstream of OPNsense code in the beginning (but didn't Deciso did the exact same thing with pfSense back in 2015 ?), the more we move forward the less upstream we do. Unfortunately we didn't had the chance to have GonzoPancho screaming on the whole internet so social marketing for our distro is still discrete at this stage…
I won't discuss future plans of our distro on the OPNsense forum, this seems like not the exact right place to do that ;-) but there clearly will have some very interesting stuff offered that will move us on our own trajectory…
Who is DynFi?
No, we are not an obscure agency of the French government, but a Paris based company created back in 2001.
Hope this post helps understand who we are and where we come from.
