OPNSense Nano

[W277AC]

I am a long time pfSense user finally giving up on pfSense and I am truly curious what OPNSense Nano is about, is it actually similar to what pfSense Nano was like? I only ask because pfSense had a nano variant as well and I loved that so much then they pulled the plug on nano. No matter what I am moving over to OPNSense and just wanted to ask what your Nano variant can do and what it's for. If it's for older machines or lower end hardware I'm totally going to dive right into that. What features will I be missing with the nano variant?

[chemlud]

I use the (32-bit, soon-to-die) nano image on some older boxes with CF-cards. No install, simply dd over the image is the biggest plus for me. OPNsense does not have the (redundant) 2-partition setup as pfsense had in the past with switching over from one boot partition to the other.

If you have decent CPU power and an SSD installed, I would go with the installation image...

[franco]

It's indeed largely the same. It only has one partition nowadays as chemlud mentions and gained growfs support over the years.

There are no missing features, just other setup defaults.

Be aware of recent inode shortage due to fun with Python 2 + Python 3 in the same image, but there is a test image around.


Cheers,
Franco

[chemlud]

...the image mentioned above:

https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/snapshots/OPNsense-201905160745-LibreSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2

:-)

[franco]

Replaced said test build with a more official 19.1.8 build... details here:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=12639.msg59419#msg59419