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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?
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?