OPNsense Reviews

I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings.

On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option. 

To scale, you need a different package application. It's not compatible with pfSense. Maybe there should be a different package or a different setup, but it's a problem. I need a little package because I'm a small business.

It would be nice if the solution offered virtual servers in the future. Compatible mutual servers with firewall specifications.

I've been using the solution for 6 months.

The solution is stable. There are about 10 people using this solution.

This solution is scalable. I may scale in the future.

I don't contact technical support. I don't need to.

I compared pfSense vs OPNSense. I used to use pfSense. I switched because OPNSense is modern and new. The graphic interface is good. And sometimes pfSense is not stable. Sometimes it breaks the line and stops.

The initial setup was easy. Deployment took about one day, maybe two. I do the deployment and handle the maintenance myself, so you only need one person to manage it.

I did the implementation myself.

It costs about $1000.

I would rate this solution 10 out of 10.

Our primary use case for this solution is using it as a VPN to connect our data centers and our offices with Windows servers. 

Also, we use OPNsense as a general firewall for protocol warnings on IIS.

OPNsense has been useful. It's easy to use. We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience. It is open source licensed. 

Open source software operates well. It's a good product. It's what FortiGate was with licensing. You need new licenses for it now. OPNsense is much more flexible.

The feature that we found most valuable is the flexibility. It has nothing to do with operating the firewall. It's that we can program it the way we want. 

There is no need to fight with the user interface.

In our experience, OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server. 

In general, OPNsense is sweet, pretty, and neat. It's still in development. I expect the next release in the fall. Maybe they are going to polish it more.

I would love a buy a new VPN. We experience problems with the old one. In high variables, it shuts off. We want to switch to a new one.

With the stability of this solution, we have had no problems except with high availability when we switch remote machines on.

Sometimes, it disconnects the VPN. That's the only problem we have experienced so far.

We don't have too much traffic. With our traffic, it's working great. We don't expect to have a very big traffic load. Directly within our offices, maybe 20 or 30 people. 

For the internet server, they are using our service. We have people on 100 home VPN connections. The final users are in the thousands. We are using it in all our offices.

We only use OPNsense now. We migrated from FortiGate. We removed all FortiGate software. That is the only problem we had using the tool.

We did not require any help from the support team.

Previously, we used the Fortinet FortiGate switch because of the devices we have. They were limited to maybe 100-200 MB and were slowing down very drastically with Fortinet. 

For many different reasons and because I need to do IP implementation that was not very compatible with our VPN, we switched. Now we have no problem integrating the VPN. 

We switched to this open source solution and so far we are happy with it.

The initial set up was very easy. We had it working in one week or so. It was pretty fast.

We did the initial setup only by ourselves.

We are not paying any licensing fees. OPNsense is completely free for us.

We evaluated other products for defense similar to OPNsense. We weren't happy with the whole difference. We were happy with the company behind OPNsense. 

We will pay for OPNsense if required, but that is the main reason we chose it.

My first advice is to check the recommendations. They have online information to spec it out in general. OPNsense is a great tool for problem-solving with a VPN. It's very nice.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate this product an 8. It still needs to mature. It's new, only two years or three in the market. They are doing great improvements. They still need to fix little things with the high availability and the user interface. That needs to be polished, but they are doing a great job.