{"id":408,"date":"2021-05-09T02:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T02:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/?p=408"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:17:27","slug":"opnsense-vs-pfsense-in-2021-a-wild-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/opnsense-vs-pfsense-in-2021-a-wild-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"OPNsense vs. pfSense in 2021 &#8211; a wild ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is like an Apple vs. Microsoft \/ BMW vs. Mercedes \/ Coke vs. Pepsi thing. <\/p>\n<p>First off let me clarify I am by default in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfsense.org\/getting-started\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pfSense<\/a> camp. We used their hardware and software at my old job, we are using some in my current job and when I moonlight as a consultant I have placed a bunch of them where it made sense. I travel with an SG-1100, I run pfSense at home and placed some SG-3100 with family and friends. I am a fan. I am biased.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netgate.com\/blog\/painful-lessons-learned-in-security-and-community.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lot has happened this year<\/a> that made me look at <a href=\"https:\/\/opnsense.org\/about\/about-opnsense\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OPNsense<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this would be a quick comparison. 3 paragraphs, come up with a succinct conclusion and hit that &#8220;Publish&#8221; button in WordPress but alas it is frustratingly difficult to pick one over the other.  <\/p>\n<p>I ended up with a wall of text draft that nobody would find valuable so instead<a href=\"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/opnsense-vs-pfsense-in-2021-index\/\"> I am going to break it down into bite-sized segments and refer to them in some sort of master post that I will keep editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is like an Apple vs. Microsoft \/ BMW vs. Mercedes \/ Coke vs. Pepsi thing. First off let me clarify I am by default in the pfSense camp. We used their hardware and software at my old job, we are using some in my current job and when I moonlight as a consultant I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/opnsense-vs-pfsense-in-2021-a-wild-ride\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opnsense","category-pfsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7dc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}