nfSensei ( fork pfsense )

[muchacha_grande]

We all know how much time it takes for a project like this to get mature... if it started recently and suddenly it has all the features, I would say that it is likely completely AI coded.
Having said that, I also think that AI in good and responsible hands is "the tool" for coding but it will take time for this FW to reach a mature state as OPNSense has reached already.

[Netlearn]

We all know how much time it takes for a project like this to get mature... if it started recently and suddenly it has all the features, I would say that it is likely completely AI coded.

Can't say how mature the project is at this moment, because there is no any official release I can find, so I suppose the dev considers it's not enough to publish it.

But anyway, it's being developed since 2004.

[sopex]

But anyway, it's being developed since 2004.

Hahaha, no it isn't... If he actually started on January, I would be surprised.

The only reason we know of the project is that Ullrich is one of the pfsense cofounders. Other than that, this is a very unserious situation in my humble opinion.

[Netlearn]

Here: About

He describes his curriculum and states "2024 - Present" > "nfSensei - Starting from zero"

I don't know when he really began with the development. There is almost no info about the whole project.

[Greg_E]

It is interesting, especially VPP support. Routing across local LANs at 10g with less overhead would be nice, something I may start doing in my lab just to see what the results might be. My current lab OPN device has a quad port x710 card installed, so I could get 3 LAN all going at 10g if I wanted to test it, WAN is still very limited.

[Bob.Dig]

Here

Here what, you were wrong, about twenty years.

[pfry]

It is interesting, especially VPP support. Routing across local LANs at 10g with less overhead would be nice, something I may start doing in my lab just to see what the results might be. My current lab OPN device has a quad port x710 card installed, so I could get 3 LAN all going at 10g if I wanted to test it, WAN is still very limited.

I know this doesn't apply to you, but for others who want to try DPDK-based software like VPP or DANOS: you definitely need recent firmware for Intel cards, as DPDK uses (at least by default) every hardware bell and whistle offered by the driver. I don't know about Aquantia/Marvell devices; I haven't used Mellanox/nVidia or newer Broadcom devices; Chelsio includes firmware in their (gigantic) driver.

DANOS requires much less investment to set up (or did, at least - VPP may have improved since I used it), but is dead like rock. (I don't even know whether Ciena still maintains Vyatta, as they closed off the docs.) VyOS may be an convenient option (for testing VPP), but I haven't looked at it recently either.