Thanks for the great product!

[andreab]

Hi,

Can I please just spend one minute telling you how great OPNsense is?
No point as if you are reading this, you already know!

You've been my introduction to BSD, and since then a lot of more Unix based systems came my way.

Anyway, the other day I was reading this article on the right software for setting up a homelab and could not help mentioning the amazing OPNsense in the comments: https://opensource.com/article/19/3/home-lab

I keep mentioning OPNsense at work too but it's hard to steer/convince CISCO/Windows engineers that Unix and open source can be a valid alternative. None the less, I keep talking about it! lol

Thanks to all the developers, and keep up the good work,
Andrea

[packet loss]

It's been a long time since I've used OPNsense. I switched over to using OpenBSD as my firewall but now I'm back to using OPNsense. I'm impressed on how far the project has come. Development has been non stop. So far it's working great for my all my needs.  I would also like to say thanks to the developers for a job well done!

[hbc]

OPNsense is great, but at the moment unfortunately publishing of updates is faster than quality management. With 19.1.5 there had to be applied a hotfix (save plugin config) and several patches (WOL, DynDNS, php7 related stuff, ipsec).I

It's getting really hard/complex to maintain a production cluster without daily tracking this forum and noting down all necessary patches that have to be applied in next maintenance window, when doing an update.

[franco]

OPNsense is great, but at the moment unfortunately publishing of updates is faster than quality management. With 19.1.5 there had to be applied a hotfix (save plugin config) and several patches (WOL, DynDNS, php7 related stuff, ipsec).

You can use any particular version of OPNsense that best suits your needs. There are a number of tools and techniques for avoiding using versions that don't seem to be fit for your environment after doing the necessary testing in your deployments. If you don't know, just ask and we can discuss.

It's getting really hard/complex to maintain a production cluster without daily tracking this forum and noting down all necessary patches that have to be applied in next maintenance window, when doing an update.

It's getting really hard/complex to maintain a project with a > 15 year history with tens of thousands of users without daily tracking this forum and noting down all necessary improvements requested and fixes reported that have to be applied in next stable version, when doing an update.

It's easy to note the same thing from a core team perspective.


Cheers,
Franco

[franco]

PS: Time spent on the forum to make sure your OPNsense works perfectly is not in any way wasted or not well-spent. Remember you are using a free product which merely means you save money elsewhere so please don't think work goes away: it just shifts in a different direction. And if all that money saved lands in the pockets of your employer and you still have more work maybe she or he should give you a raise and still save a bit in operational costs. This way everybody wins...

[JoK]

I can't agree more...I really love OPNsense, its so much better than crappy consumer routers :-)