Questions from a PFSense Home User

[L. Cornelius Dol]

Hi All,

I am currently using pfSense for my home network and know that quite well. However, I have put together new hardware from a retired low-end Ryzen system and so I'm considering switching to OPNsense which I've installed it on the new box to play around with it. My plan is to reproduce the config I have on the current pfSense firewall (except anything that requires the actual NICs to be there), and then take my network down for an hour or so while I switch it over and do final config.

I have a few questions about OPNsense:

• Is there any way to change the date/time format shown in the Web GUI? I currently see very verbose timestamps like this: "Wed Jul 24 2019 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)" and I'd like to see "2019-07-24 00:00:00 Wed".
• Is is possible to create Interfaces unassigned to a NIC and assign them when I put the card in the new machine (pretty sure the answer here is no)?
• Is it possible to rename the root user to "admin", or do I need to create a second user? If the latter, can I then disable or delete the root user?
• Is it possible to utilize a firewall HDD as a LAN file-share?
• Is it possible to keep config backups on a USB drive instead of the main HDD? I don't want to use cloud storage, but I don't want to be vulnerable to a simple HDD failure either for recovering config (I don't mind a hour or so downtime while I swap in a new HDD, reinstall, and then reapply the config; but rebuilding my config from scratch is hours of work).
• Am I correct in thinking that they only way to know about an update is to manually click the link on the dashboard? The system itself doesn't periodically check for updates?
• I suppose I should ask if there is any support yet for importing a pfSense config file?
• Why is the remote syslog daemon running if I have not enabled it in configuration?

[fabian]

Is is possible to create Interfaces unassigned to a NIC and assign them when I put the card in the new machine (pretty sure the answer here is no)?

You can edit the xml file and import it afterwards.

Is it possible to rename the root user to "admin", or do I need to create a second user? If the latter, can I then disable or delete the root user?

It can be disabled but not removed since FreeBSD relies on it.

Is it possible to utilize a firewall HDD as a LAN file-share?

Not out of the box but with some plug-ins it may work. There is also a discussion to add samba.

Is it possible to keep config backups on a USB drive instead of the main HDD? I don't want to use cloud storage, but I don't want to be vulnerable to a simple HDD failure either for recovering config (I don't mind a hour or so downtime while I swap in a new HDD, reinstall, and then reapply the config; but rebuilding my config from scratch is hours of work).

You need to write your own backup script to make that work

Am I correct in thinking that they only way to know about an update is to manually click the link on the dashboard? The system itself doesn't periodically check for updates?

You can configure automatic updates in cron.

I suppose I should ask if there is any support yet for importing a pfSense config file?

Not for recent versions. Only before the fork.

[panupong]

Hi my name is jack.
I am currently using pfSense for my home network and know that quite well.
However, I have put together new hardware from a retired low-end Ryzen system and so I'm considering switching to OPNsense which I've installed it on the new box to play around with it. My plan is to reproduce the config I have on the current pfSense firewall (except anything that requires the actual NICs to be there), and then take my network down for an hour or so while I switch it over and do final config.

I have a few questions about OPNsense:
Is there any way to change the date/time format shown in the Web GUI? I currently see very verbose timestamps like this: "Wed Jul 24 2019 15:00:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)" and I'd like to see "2019-07-24 00:00:00 Wed".

Is is possible to create Interfaces unassigned to a NIC and assign them when I put the card in the new machine (pretty sure the answer here is no)?
Is it possible to rename the root user to "admin", or do I need to create a second user? If the latter, can I then disable or delete the root user?
Is it possible to utilize a firewall HDD as a LAN file-share?
Is it possible to keep config backups on a USB drive instead of the main HDD? I don't want to use cloud storage, but I don't want to be vulnerable to a simple HDD failure either for recovering config (I don't mind a hour or so downtime while I swap in a new HDD, reinstall, and then reapply the config; but rebuilding my config from scratch is hours of work).
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Am I correct in thinking that they only way to know about an update is to manually click the link on the dashboard? The system itself doesn't periodically check for updates?
I suppose I should ask if there is any support yet for importing a pfSense config file?
Why is the remote syslog daemon running if I have not enabled it in configuration?

[mimugmail]

Did you just copy the questions? I don't get it ...