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OPNsense

Last Update: 2018-07-16 10:23 UTC

OPNsense is a FreeBSD-based specialist operating system (and a fork of pfSense) designed for firewalls and routers. It is developed by Deciso B.V. in the Netherlands. Some of the features of OPNsense include forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection, two-factor authentication and easy OpenVPN client setup. The project's focus on security brings a number of unique features, such as the option to use LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL (selectable in the GUI) and a custom build based on HardenedBSD. OPNsense also includes an update mechanism that delivers important security updates in a timely fashion.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 119 (77), 6 months: 131 (70), 3 months: 155 (51), 4 weeks: 174 (34), 1 week: 192 (30)

Average visitor rating: 8.61/10 from 18 review(s).


OPNsense Summary
Distribution OPNsense
Home Page https://opnsense.org/
Mailing Lists https://opnsense.org/support-overview/mailing-list/
User Forums https://forum.opnsense.org/
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://docs.opnsense.org/
Screenshots https://opnsense.org/about/features/ • DistroWatch Gallery
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Download Mirrors https://opnsense.org/download •
Bug Tracker https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases, download links and checksums:
 • 2018-01-29: BSD Release: OPNsense 18.1
 • 2018-01-11: Development Release: OPNsense 18.1 RC1
 • 2017-07-31: BSD Release: OPNsense 17.7
 • 2017-07-17: Development Release: OPNsense 17.7 RC1
 • 2017-01-31: BSD Release: OPNsense 17.1
 • 2016-12-16: Development Release: OPNsense 17.1 Beta
 • 2016-07-28: BSD Release: OPNsense 16.7
 • 2016-07-04: Development Release: OPNsense 16.7 RC1
 • 2016-01-28: BSD Release: OPNsense 16.1
 • More OPNsense releases...

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Feature 18.1.12 17.7.12 16.7.14 15.7.18
Release Date 2018-07-16 2018-01-18 2017-01-25 2015-11-09
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Average rating
8.6
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Version: 18.1.11
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-07-03
Votes: 2


 I was floundering around after M0nowall stopped being actively supported and I tried out many different open source firewall solutions including Smoothwall, pfsense untangle, ipcop and Opnsense and I have to say for me Opnsense was always the better of them all.
Less complicated to get running. More actively up to date, far better support ,the one time I reported an upgrade issue it was fixed in hours, instead of weeks of dead air.
the active community and growing set of plugin's is great too. I never had any unexpected slowdown like other talks about Iperf throughput puts it squarely where I would expect a non-hardware accelerated firewall to be placed.


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Version: 18.1.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-03
Votes: 0


 I like everything in the system, easy to administer and very complete.


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Version: 18.1.10
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-06-27
Votes: 0


 Unreliable. Hardware incompatibility? Suricata causes my system to slow until it crashes.

I want this to work because it has some slick features. No good if it causes my firewall to drop from 40Mbit down to 4Mbit transfer speeds and then crashes the server.


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