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I'm having the same issue. Web interface works fine after I do that, but won't load properly on boot.

I have encountered a bizarre "bug" in opnsense. I put that in quotes because it makes no sense to me that the bug is in opnsense, but pulling opnsense out of the equation fixed the issue. I'm not complaining here, I'm just providing info in case this helps someone understand this issue in the future.

My ISP (a horrible little company called GCI) has data usage caps and throttled connections once they reach the cap. When you hit your cap, your first web page gets redirected to a nice opportunity to pay them more money. You can continue to use the internet but at very very slow speeds. Yesterday this happened. I checked and I was nowhere near the cap. I know--what could this possibly have to do with my router?

However, plugging the cable modem directly to my desktop fixed the issue. Using the router again cause the issue to come back. I tried this rebooting several times as it made no sense to me. And--most strangely--installing pfsense on the router fixed the issue as well. I cannot fathom why this would be. My ISP of course blames me.

I don't usually post about every little hiccup I have, but this was weird enough I thought I'd share.

Looks like I'm the only one willing to chip in?

I'm willing to chip in to buy the OPNsense project an APU2.

Well that's disappointing. OPNsense is a great piece of software. Maybe I'll check back in when FreeBSD 12 is released as I think this is overall a better solution for my needs than ipfire.

If these suggestions improve performance, I'd love to hear about it.

Rainmaker,

I think I'm not communicating well. I'm not saying that FreeBSD has poor network performance. I'm saying that with the particular piece of hardware I happen to own FreeBSD has roughly half the throughput of linux and is struggles to use it efficiently. The FreeBSD development thread listed earlier suggests that it's not the SMP performance of the pf that's the issue, but something to do with some oddness in the embedded intel NIC.

But, most of these benchmarks are almost two years old. I'm wondering if at this point the problem with this particular hardware might be fixed and if people might be able to get similar performance under FreeBSD with tweaks.

My hardware is an APU2C4 :).

As to linux v freebsd performance, obviously they are different kernels and aren't going to do everything the same. But, in this particular case the benchmarks have freebsd having roughly half the throughput of linux.

I'm thinking of switching from ipfire to OPNsense because I think it has a better overall feature set, but this is my major hangup. If people are able to get similar performance out of OPNsense, I'd love to hear about it.