OPNsense versus pfSense

[guest18611]

Hi,

I'm new here, but you just need to read in their forum/blog...nasty stuff.

For me: i don't want to support such a project and I really like the spirt here, real open source and a friendly community!

[iam]

And you still haven't told us what has not convinced you.

I have: Different as in pfSense in OPNsense LDAP groups aren't evaluated.

EDIT: Added missing word group

[mimugmail]

I'd suggest you open a new thread and tell what you want to achieve and what went wrong. Then we can start fixing it

[iam]

I'd suggest you open a new thread and tell what you want to achieve and what went wrong. Then we can start fixing it

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9249.0

[jclendineng]

Used pfsense for a good while, and while it has many features, seemed to crash a lot with me.  Forums are a mess, but that's normal for BSD, as BSD gurus are usually quite arrogant.  I love BSD, use it a lot on my network, but my goodness.  This is about the only forum that seems respectful.  I installed opnsense after a rather bad week with pfsense and have not looked back.  Monowall was great and opnsense has been better for me in literally every way.  Highly recommend to everyone I come across.  Love the work being done, love the forums.  Sidenote, I prefer BSD over linux, just wouldn't recommend it for new users based on the points above.  Keep up the good work guys!

[AhnHEL]

Long time pfSense User, almost ten years.  Just finished migrating my settings to OPNsense for my home network on FIOS.  Perfectly happy with the transition and I’m here to stay.  I wanted to introduce myself and applaud the Project.as well.  I tested OPNsense when it was first introduced years ago bc of what pfSense was turning into but OPNsense was still very new and not as featured so I wound up returning to pfSense.  You guys have come a long way and have a lot to be proud of, thank you.  I made a modest donation yesterday and look forward to participating in the forum. 

While trying to remember how long I was a pfSense user, I stumbled upon this statement in Wikipedia for pfSense:

“In November 2017, a World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that Netgate had been using the domain opnsense.com in bad faith to discredit OPNsense, a competing open source firewall, and compelled Netgate to transfer the domain to Deciso, the developer of OPNsense.[7]”

I never knew that until just a few moments ago.  Features aside, now I know getting away from pfSense was the correct choice.