The shocking truth behind migrating from pfSense to OPNsense - Important contemplation before you do

NOTE: This video is sponsored by Zenarmor and I do receive a small percentage back for every referral that signs up using the link, which gets put towards my Zenarmor subscription.

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So you likely found this video because you run pfSense in your home lab or rely on it to secure your business network. You have probably heard all the chatter on Reddit and YouTube about the recent changes announced by Netgate to the pfSense Plus Home+Lab subscription and how it is no longer a free option.

You have likely seen in these same discussions people recommending alternatives like OPNsense, but you can't decide if you should downgrade to pfSense CE or try something new like OPNsense.

Perhaps none of what I just mentioned affects you and you are simply looking for a pfSense alternative, or maybe you are completely new to the world of open-source firewalls and you are trying to decide what is best for you.

Regardless of the reasons that you found yourself here, I am hoping to make your decision-making process a lot easier and in this video, we are going to briefly compare OPNsense to pfSense and talk about some advantages of using OPNsense as an alternative.

We are also going to talk about how we can enhance OPNsense by easily installing the Zenarmor Next Generation Firewall plugin, which unlocks advanced security features like deep packet inspection, application, and web controls.

With OPNsense and Zenarmor, you can start exploring and benefiting from next-generation firewall features for free in the comfort of your own home-lab environment.

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[stuardbrtube]

Sadly this video was more an advertising than informative. When we talk about a sensitive thing like a firewall we need to discuss more about the pros anc cons of each one, but you focused in create an AD of ZenArmor than inform and be educative... I know that a small channel need to make money in someway, but i think that the video should be more dense.

[ppetrix]

can open sense be deployed in Azure? and can tailscale be installed? Very nice comparison. thank you

[zyghom]

I used to have Zenarmor - I uninstalled it after month or so - not fit for purpose.

[anand-nbbb]

Hi Bro,

I need your help. I have Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop and it has a VPN settings configured on it. I think its managed through pfsense I use this VPN to connect to my work environment

Now my query is that when I connect to this VPN I connect to my work network & am able to work inside it, but this disconnects the internet connectivity that is working on my base machine.

I want the internet to be working on my base system as well & also should be able to connect to my work network as a lot of websites are blocked inside the work network. Split Tunneling is enabled on the VPN server but it seems my system is missing some configuration which is causing it to not work

Can you please tell me what settings I need to do on my laptop VPN to make this work. Kindly help.

Thanks & regards,

[aviwemusa]

How to make OPNsense connect to the Wazuh manager?

[MiFonito]

Did you post this video on OPNsense forum already? :) a lot of PFsense users joined the forums lately I think this would help them.

[brend]

Late to the party I know... Is there a seamless way to migrate from pfSense?

[christianclark]

Complete waste of time watching this. Just an advert for OPsense. Give me a real comparison. E.g install the different OS on the same hardware and let’s see the performance stats. Everything you mentioned here is just a pfsense feature with a different GUI

[chuckowens]

The only thing holding me on pfsense is NPM works flawlessy and I dont have to invert FW rules to get it to work or I could be doing it wrong but it caused more of a issue than I felt like it was worth

[---trqg]

Opnsense support vxlan and sr-iov while pfsense not

[lesfilanto]

I had pfsense and had random traffic slowdowns. I had opnsense prior and I had vlan issues, though it could have been an error on my part but in the end I went back to Sophos, sorry but it works for me.

[pilotken]

recently make the jump to try opnsense and already thinking of going back to pfsense. too many backwards rules that don't make sense. automatic rules that you cannot even control or manage that seems to impact filtering... firewall rule logs are horrible looking, no quick deny or allow from logs.... sure it's pretty looking... but so far, not liking it.

[Sulaimanzai]

I have had issues with vlans and dhcp, the vlan was getting the ip via dhcp in opnsense, so went back to pfsense

[TABNuland]

I was a Pfsense user, moved to Opnsense for more modern api and gui.
Now i am moving back to pfsense because opnsense does not support HA PPOE ...
A bit crappy and painfull...

[fatchickencatcher]

sensational title, click bait. Money always distorts.

[matldn]

This is a plug for opnsense. Very little comparison.

[Zorb_EG]

Aside from the title being laughable, the video is somewhat disingenuous; 1) Zenarmor works perfectly fine on the latest version of pfsense CE. It's clearly stated in the latest ZA documentation. 2) You fail to mention that Zenarmor requires disabling all forms of hardware offloading on the network interfaces, which can significantly reduce performance, therefore potentially outweighing the benefits for home labs. 3) You also fail to mention that Zenarmor is fairly CPU intensive, which again, can affect performance for small home labs. 4) Lastly, you fail to make a solid case for OPNsense, either way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a pfsense fanboy. They are both great. Zenarmor seems pretty good too. I just don't think this video was informative.

[stephendetomasi]

Downvoted this video for the clickbait title, sorry