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[Background:]

This is a personal opinion from a 40year+ Systems Engineer...

Background:
I had to replace my aging home "Netgear 3100" with something faster.  Unfortunately, I am sitting in South Africa and options were limited to an old PC, a replacement Netgear device, or a Chinese 4-port NUC-style device.  Price-wise, I opted for a Chinese (Ali..) 4-port NUC-style device, as they tend to not only be cheap, but also fast enough for the traffic I want to pass.  I opted for a bare-bone Intel N5105.  Added 8GB RAM and a 128G M.2 device.

I then downloaded (well, tried) the latest pfSense, just to find it outdated and the way they treated their customers, just not viable.  I then decided to give OPNsense a go.  Being technical minded, it took me about a day to find my way around the GUI and YT vids and this forum posts.

Outcome:
Well, say what you may, this OS is not only pleasing to the eye, but fast and without much hassles.  I have been running this in a live environment for the last 24 hours without any problems and the routing/FW strong enough for me to trust the environment.

Last, but not least, I am now grateful I took the plunge and swapped to OPNsense.

Thank you to all the developers, YT guides and forum posts.  Not only did it help, but also full of information.

Regards
cyber7 (aka Aubrey)

I have just used your process and for me, it worked!  Thank you!

Hi guys
I have reported the problem to pfSense where squid3's instruction to not log a single IP in April this year, but it is still not working.  I have also posted a workaround, but pfSense is not doing anything about it (4 months later)...

Could someone from your developers please test and see if the same goes for OPNSense?  If it has been fixed and the problem sorted, I am going to switch all my products to your release.

sick of being ignored by pfSense
cyber7-out

Link to technical writeup of the access_log acl problem in squid: https://aubreykloppers.wordpress.com/pfsense-exclude-an-ip-out-of-your-squid3-log/

This is my first post after having a look at a home-release of a FW.  I must also specify that I am an active user on pfSense, bought the book, contributed to code and blogged extensively on pfSense, BUT...

I find the attitude and comments from the "cmb" user very destructive towards the pfSense label and name and in poor show!  It almost feels like the user is trolling on purpose.

That said, IF cmb is a troll, please delete his comments and the subsequent comments (post it rather to an archive if license issues needs to be discussed).  BUT, if this "cmb" user is the owner/coder/admin of pfSense, you, my dear sir, is busy destroying a good company and name by your posts and narrow-mindedness.

just my 10c
cyber7 (aka Aubrey Kloppers, Cape Town, South Africa)
aubreykloppers.wordpress.com