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0 pointsnicholasjarnold1y ago0 comments

> the originals remain dominant for enterprise and free users anyways.

I'm a former pfSense user that reluctantly moved to OPNsense a handful of years ago after a lot of bad press around Netgate started circulating widely causing me to believe that support for the community offering might wane over time. I was under the impression that many people had moved off of pfSense for home use. I'm surprised by your assertion that it "remains dominant" for free users, and I wonder how you might know this?

OPNsense has been rock solid for me, btw. I was reluctant to switch only because of the time sink and perceived risk. Nobody wants to spend a weekend debugging VLAN tagging on their WAN port or some such. Luckily for me, there were no such issues when switching over.

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SpecialistK1y ago

pfSense maintains some momentum due to name recognition, but anyone who digs a little deeper will see that they're clowns and go with OPN instead.

luckman2121y ago

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

IntelMiner1y ago

They harassed the OPNsense team, registering a domain to besmirch them and then pretended to have nothing to do with it until ICANN got involved

Oh, and they knowingly shipped a broken and insecure Wireguard to their customers, and tried to use their FreeBSD commit status to force it upstream

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guiambros1y ago

Try compiling pfSense.

No, here's an even simpler task: try compiling packages for pfSense.

The clowns from Netgate made it unbelievably difficult, for no good reason other than being antagonist to the open source community.

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riedel1y ago

Out of curiosity I googled 'pfsense clown' and found this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/1ct683k/clown_mom...

cromka1y ago

I did the same and while I never had any issues with pfSense staff being rude or condescending, I had experience such attitudes on multiple occasions with OPNSense staff, and that included my bug reports with fixes provided. I was scratching my head a lot wondering if “I was me, not them” but no, I saw this with others, too, and then realized there’s something wrong there. I don’t even bother reporting anything anymore because of that.

This is all very ironic because that kind of attitude was the main drive for many to move away from pfsense.

justsomehnguy1y ago

> OPNsense has been rock solid for me, btw

Well, it works.

But try to add some custom parameters to a daemon, which aren't listed on the page. Or try to run more routers than one. Or diag network states even on 4k monitor.

There are a thousands cuts using OPNsense in anything more than a home router. Despite ten years of trying this year I ripped it off where it was installed and replaced back with pfSense.

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0 pointsnicholasjarnold1y ago0 comments

> the originals remain dominant for enterprise and free users anyways.

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SpecialistK1y ago

pfSense maintains some momentum due to name recognition, but anyone who digs a little deeper will see that they're clowns and go with OPN instead.

luckman2121y ago

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

IntelMiner1y ago

They harassed the OPNsense team, registering a domain to besmirch them and then pretended to have nothing to do with it until ICANN got involved

Oh, and they knowingly shipped a broken and insecure Wireguard to their customers, and tried to use their FreeBSD commit status to force it upstream

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guiambros1y ago

Try compiling pfSense.

No, here's an even simpler task: try compiling packages for pfSense.

The clowns from Netgate made it unbelievably difficult, for no good reason other than being antagonist to the open source community.

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riedel1y ago

Out of curiosity I googled 'pfsense clown' and found this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/1ct683k/clown_mom...

cromka1y ago

This is all very ironic because that kind of attitude was the main drive for many to move away from pfsense.

justsomehnguy1y ago

> OPNsense has been rock solid for me, btw

Well, it works.

But try to add some custom parameters to a daemon, which aren't listed on the page. Or try to run more routers than one. Or diag network states even on 4k monitor.

There are a thousands cuts using OPNsense in anything more than a home router. Despite ten years of trying this year I ripped it off where it was installed and replaced back with pfSense.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse