Another migration forced!

[jaimito]

Hi

we are now evaluating moving over to Opnsense. We already bought some hardware from Deciso but currently running p*sense. We have p*sense boxes (mostly APU) at many of our clients - some 10 or 12 endpoints. Not a big roll-out by any means.

We looked at it a while ago, but it was not quite ready IMO for what we wanted, and who wants to reinstall a lot of small systems unless necessary?

Our hand has however now been forced.

Many here will know about the changes being implemented by N*tg*te in the current and future releases. We are not impressed with these changes which first, enforce ZFS on new installs, not a good idea on a low RAM system IMHO, and will soon enforce Intel hardware encryption, something else we don't trust (M.E.?) or need. I prefer AMD hardware for this dedicated task.

I wrote a VERY POLITE message to the Other forum mentioning these doubts and others, and that we were considering Opnsense IF the Other project continued forcing these choices, in the hope that they might reconsider.

I attempted to log in to check the response a day or two later, only to find my IP was banned When I logged in as Someone Else the post had been deleted

This -- after almost ten years paying for commercial support.

So, it looks like we will be moving to the true successor-in-spirit to m0n0wall.

Hello all!

If we do move to Opnsense (probable) we will make a contribution. We also were paying for support, just in case, so if you want to start that service...

 
(PS: One of my other hats is as a therapist, I have a psychology degree. I'd have to say the Other project would seem to not be behaving rationally, if it was a person...  for this reason I have used an * in place of some letters above, sigh).

[mimugmail]

Hi!

Do you remember all the points making your decision OPNsense is not ready for your usecase?

Perhaps they are already fixed or can be fixed with your help since this is a community project

[xinnan]

I also think that my router should not require hardware updates as often as an iPhone.  You have to reach pretty far to come up with excuses to drop support and force migration on a router. 

[mimugmail]

I also think that my router should not require hardware updates as often as an iPhone.  You have to reach pretty far to come up with excuses to drop support and force migration on a router.

It's a good way to force customers buying fresh hardware.
Just like Cisco, the hardware is such stable that they only build software compatible with newer hardware

[xinnan]

Had a similar issue with a company called obihai recently.  They also prey on tech stupidity.

They sell phone FOBS that are basically SIP and they allow googlevoice.  Thats on their server side.

So recently they decided to say that their obi100 (basically a sip device) was no longer supported. 

They advised me to buy their new device which offers the amazing new feature of doing exactly what the old one was doing just fine. 

Amazing.  Why don't they just ask for money instead of crap like that?

[franco]

Hi jaimito,

We found that people had similar issues and experiences to share over the years so we'll continue the track that originally created the projects, driven by an open and collaborative spirit.

Also, we want to have fun while doing so!


Enjoy,
Franco