On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk <[email protected]>
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.
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