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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at
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friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from
OpenWRT.<br>
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<div>I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense
or OPNsense do provide.</div>
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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.<br>
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There's really no comparison.<br>
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