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pfsense is open washing (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Isn’t this why we have OpnSense?

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, OPNsense doesn't exist because of pfsense false advertising and misleading people to think it's open source.

    More like it exists because of pfsense not being open source. This has nothing to do with the advertising.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Ok. Shakin my head here. I certainly believed pfSense was opensource.
    I switched to OPNsense this year, mostly because that's what we use at work.
    It sounds like I'm on the right one then?
    Or is somebody next week gonna tell me OPNsense is a fully corporate orphan crushing operation?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What's proprietary about pfSense? Been using it for a decade and this is news to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The article is a good start. For one, you cannot build it. They have some sort of proprietary blob in their toolchain so that only netgate can build it.

    Between that, the massive security fuckups, and the absolutely horrid behavior from the maintainers I dumped that shit and haven't looked back.

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    • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This bugs me. I selected between pfSense and OpnSense a few years ago and got the impression pfSense's support and UI was better. I'm not looking forward to having reconfigure everything if switching :/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I made the switch. It was a good excuse to clean up my config though.

    I ended up installing it in a VM initially, just so I could configure it how I needed before going live. Then made a config backup, installed opnsense, then restored the config (after changing the interface names)

    I'll never go back to pfsense.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Feel free to make additions here: https://consumerrights.wiki/Netgate

    Clicking link leading to https://forum.netgate.com/#msg759561 and https://forum.netgate.com/#msg754001
    Gave me [[error:blacklisted-ip]]

    The user whose Bug was removed from the website, made a clone bug report. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8215

    Comparing the report on the site with the screenshot:

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Btw that seems to be a fork/reupload of a DMCA'd repo.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    just use OpenWRT, it has all the same shit

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Um ... I have 2 GLI.net OpenWRT routers. Yes, they can do quite a bit of the same stuff. Really, I'm a fan. I paid money for them, twice ... but I would not want to deploy enterprise networks on OpenWRT. When I needed a full gateway for a virtual network, I used OPNsense.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Netgate are shitbags. Fuck pfSense.

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