On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense do provide.
Quite a lot. pfSense (OPNsense is a fork of pfSense) is closer to the "real" routers from companies like Cisco. For example, it supports routing protocols such as OSPF & BGP, which you are not likely to find in consumer grade routers. On my own network, I have 4 Ethernet ports on my router, with one connected to my WAN. One is my main LAN, which also has a VLAN for my guest WiFi. I also have a test LAN and another connected to my Cisco router. I run IPv4 & IPv6 and can also use OpenVPN for remote access. I have a DNS resolver, which goes directly to the root DNS servers, an NTP server, connected to 3 stratum 1 servers and 3 stratum 2 servers. It provides stratum 2 to my LAN. It can do a lot of other things that I haven't even bothered with. I have a separate access point for WiFi. There's really no comparison.