pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?
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I'm looking to move to pfSense or OPNSense and am dumping Sophos UTM free. I pulled down both ISOs and am ready to 'lab' them at home.
I've looked on the net for comparisons. A lot of them look like fanboy fueds.
Advise, suggestions, additional layers / products / apps that I should bring into the setup for a better rounded protection suite?
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
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@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
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@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
Cost in the form of technical debt. Dropping Sophos has lots of benefits (it's a decent product, but it is costly.)
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
Why not move to Ubiquiti?
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@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
Why not move to Ubiquiti?
I was going to recommend this but wasn't sure if this was virtual lab or not. If it is a virtual lab look at VyOS.
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@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
Why not move to Ubiquiti?
I have room on my server to experiment. Kinda 'whynot'? I have an Ubiquity AP. Works nice. Rock steady.
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@coliver said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
Why not move to Ubiquiti?
I was going to recommend this but wasn't sure if this was virtual lab or not. If it is a virtual lab look at VyOS.
I'll check it out. Never really paid attention when I saw it mentioned.
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@scotth Not looking to influence your decision but the 50 IP limit is gone with Sophos XG. There are only hardware limitations such as max # cores and no more than 6GB RAM for Sophos XG.
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@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
Cost in the form of technical debt. Dropping Sophos has lots of benefits (it's a decent product, but it is costly.)
What cost are you referring to? The 50 IP limit suggest he's using the Sophos Home UTM which is free to use.
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
50 IP limit, learn something new, I like open source.... Nothing truly negative as far as Sophos goes
Why not move to Ubiquiti?
I have room on my server to experiment. Kinda 'whynot'? I have an Ubiquity AP. Works nice. Rock steady.
Room to experiment is fine for experimenting. But how will you deploy pfSense or OPNsense to production?
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@NashBrydges I'll keep that in mind. What I'll eventually be doing is to connect several locations for my family VPN. I'd like to feel at least somewhat secure.
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@NashBrydges said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
Cost in the form of technical debt. Dropping Sophos has lots of benefits (it's a decent product, but it is costly.)
What cost are you referring to? The 50 IP limit suggest he's using the Sophos Home UTM which is free to use.
He is labbing at home. Maybe I incorrectly read into this that this was prepping for his office?
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@NashBrydges I'll keep that in mind. What I'll eventually be doing is to connect several locations for my family VPN. I'd like to feel at least somewhat secure.
Oh, this isn't for work at all? Then definitely you need Ubiquiti. What will you do for your hardware firewalls if you don't?
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@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@NashBrydges said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scottalanmiller said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@bnrstnr said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
dumping Sophos UTM free
I don't have any input for the question, but I'm curious why you want to drop Sophos for one of those two?
Cost in the form of technical debt. Dropping Sophos has lots of benefits (it's a decent product, but it is costly.)
What cost are you referring to? The 50 IP limit suggest he's using the Sophos Home UTM which is free to use.
He is labbing at home. Maybe I incorrectly read into this that this was prepping for his office?
Not my office or our locations. My house, brothers', parents', kiddies'....
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@NashBrydges I'll keep that in mind. What I'll eventually be doing is to connect several locations for my family VPN. I'd like to feel at least somewhat secure.
Yeah, hard to beat Ubiquiti for what you're looking for, unless you specifically want the added UTM features.
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pfSense and OPNsense webui is pretty good when it comes to management. What other services were you using with Sophos?
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@black3dynamite said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
pfSense and OPNsense webui is pretty good when it comes to management. What other services were you using with Sophos?
IPS, Spam filtering, https proxy, antivirus. That's about it.
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I thought I'd test out pihole as well
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@scotth said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
@black3dynamite said in pfSense vs OPNSense - Fanboy fued or real differences?:
pfSense and OPNsense webui is pretty good when it comes to management. What other services were you using with Sophos?
IPS, Spam filtering, https proxy, antivirus. That's about it.
But do you need those things at home?
Are you running Sophos at all of those other family members homes as well? i.e. already have hardware there running it?
