Nothing major, just moved from pfSense to OPNsense. Very satisfied so far.

[johnmcallister]

Just a "hey, I switched! (from pfsense to opnsense)" post.

Registered for this forum 5+ years ago & asked a couple questions re: hardware compatibility back then. In the intervening 5 years I ended up running pfSenseCE, and then (briefly) pfSense "plus", on my PCengines mini-system.

pfSense worked fine & met all my basic SOHO network/WAN needs but I got tired of the cash creep and very low/laggy cadence of security updates on the community edition. Even the "plus" edition isn't updated anywhere near enough.

Took the plunge last night, crossed my fingers & just booted an OPNsense 23.7 serial image from a USB stick, wiped out my entire pfSense install on the main SATA drive inside the mini-system, clean-installed 23.7 "Restless Roadrunner," selecting config/install options via the serial console port.

Everything went perfectly smoothly, basic 192.168.x.x LAN / DHCP WAN / NAT setup, back up and running & internet / Wifi restored within 15 minutes.

Donated $50 to OPNsense and am relieved to be out from under the weirdness and lack of transparency in the land of pfSense.

[Greg_E]

Why did you go with 23.x and not 24.x?

I'm about a month into my journey from PF to OPN and getting ready to create a purchase order for a 3 year Business license. I will say, there are some things I still just can not grasp and kind of just hoping they get worked out down the road. I'm using legacy rules application for Suricata, the new way doesn't seem to work for me. Crowdsec installed because way easier. Zenarmor doing some filtering because way easier.

I needed to replace hardware no matter what I did, so testing on an HP T740 and will make the production server out of an "old" Supermicro server that I've used for a few years (X11 mainboard so not that old). Eventually I'll budget for new hardware but might take that first 3 year license to get there.

[johnmcallister]

Why did you go with 23.x and not 24.x?

... Because 23.x was what was current as of the date of that post, circa July 2023...


I don't use Suricata, Crowdsec, or Suricata..