opnSense seems to be a superb product (at least to this newbie)

[opnnewbie]

This is one those posts that do not seek advice to do A or B or whatever; the sole reason is to state that after two-or-so months after first installing opnSense in my life I am quite happy with it.

THANKS to the whole community for a superb product !

It needs to be said.

Although I still have a lot of things to learn about it, opnSense proved far more powerful/configurable than I ever guessed.

THANKS again.

PS: Expect a lot of questions in the days ahead from this newbie

[franco]

Hello and welcome. All questions are good


Cheers,
Franco

[fake]

My technical knowledge is pretty good overall (programmer) but with networking I was lacking a lot so I bought a bunch of managed switches, routers, started making my own Cat5 cables and 2 "vault" fan-less computers. One I installed OPNsense the other one I installed pfSense. I thought my knowledge was coming along but once I saw those 2 programs and all the settings that I've never even heard of, it just tells me that I basically know nothing about networking. Lol I used to think I was OK because I knew how to forward a port on a router haha.
Now I'm looking at this forum, seeing all you guys talk about this stuff I have no clue about and I'm basically impressed not only at this software but also at all you guys for understanding so much about networking.