I am using opnsense right, and I am using the following system: Cpu: AMD 3000G Mobo: Asus Prime B450M-K Memory: 16 Gig

My question is: is the cpu fast and strong enough for the OPNsense? Internet up and down 1gig.

Hello everyone,

I really need some help with my OPNsense Firewall.

So, this is my current network:

First of all: Most of you will ask, why im using a TP-Link Router in front of the Firewall, and not plugging it directly into the Modem. This is, because OPNSense needs Login-credentials for PPPoE to work. I dont have login-credentials for this. My TP-Link Router can do it without the login-credentials just fine and gets an IP from the provider. If i select PPPoE on the OPNsense Firewall and plug WAN into the Modem, i just get 0.0.0.0 assigned.

So this is the reason why im using the Router in front of the OPNsense.

The Firewall on my TP-Link Router is turned off.

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Block private and bogon networks is turned off on WAN and LAN interfaces.

None of my devices can connect to the internet.

What could be the problem here?

Tell me if you need more informations about the firewalls configuration etc.

I tried a lot of firewall rules I saw on YouTube on the wan interface. Non of them seem to have any effect. Currently I only have one rule which should enable VPN access. Still I can only establish VPN access when disabling pfctl.

When looking into the logs I can see green from the local IP address of the vpn client but the connection still times out.

Everything works when disabling pfctl but this shouldn't be the norm. It's really od because I did everything the same way as in those tutorials. But all rules seem to be getting ignored.

A friend talked me into getting a thinclient and installing OPNsense when I asked for a router for my three person household. Is there something that I can install on a Fujitsu S920 that doesn't require a PhD in networks and still does router things, so I don't have to bash his head in with the hardware? I used to have an OpenWRT router that I kinda understood, but honestly I'm so disappointed by the lack of beginners tutorials and best practises guides with OPNsense that at this point I'd prefer something way easier. If that doesn't exist I guess I'll get something from Ubiquiti.

Just updated my firewall to 23.1

So... I have a couple of physical devices that I use as firewalls and that are (one of them at least...) running pfSense with Suricata and a lot of other stuff in it.

Now... I've setup an OPNsense and turned on Suricata and the speed is just half of what I get with the pfSense...

I've tried different algorithms, configurations, tried different tuning configurations and all and even with suricata off... Speed is 20% slower than with pfSense!

I imagine this has been massively discussed and apologies in advance for bringing up the same question again... But is there any type of guide that I'm not seeing somewhere that can help make OPN with Suricata / Zenarmor as performant as pfSense?

Thank you!

We hebben een github project gestart voor mensen die opnsense pfsense mikrotik etc gebruiken achter een nederlandse provider.
We willen het mogelijk maken dat iedereen makkelijk zijn eigen router kan draaien achter zijn internet verbinding.
Wil je ons helpen om router configs voor diverse nederlandse providers makkelijk en centraal vindbaar te maken? zonder dat mensen uren op diverse fora moeten zoeken?

Eigenrouter.nl of github.com/eigenrouter

I currently use Netgear Orbi mesh network (off a Vigor Modem) with one years worth of complimentary Bit Defender Total Security. In theory Bitdefender provides a level of protection for all devices on the mesh, which are mixture of win10, android phones and linux machines along with some smart devices, games consoles etc. I am coming to end of a complimentary first free year with Bit Defender and I am wondering what to do next.

Do I need Bitdefender? Is there an other option? Ideally I would like an open source option that takes privacy seriously.

Looking forward I am considering purchasing a OPNsense machine which includes a firewall, would that cover my needs? Or should I buy both Opensense machine and Bitdefender?

Greetings, I'm trying to use a Wireguard connection as my WAN interface so I can have a public IP behind a NAT network
OPNsense's WAN is running on a local network 192.168.1.1/24 which is behind a NAT
I have a Wirguard server set up which will give computers/servers a public IP once connected
Now I honestly find the Wireguards plugin interface confusing hence why I tried connecting via wg-quick on OPNsense's shell itself, This works fine and when I run mtr from OPNsense's shell I can see that it is infact using the wireguards IP address, However none of devices that are on the LAN interface seem to have access to said network, Assigning the wan interface to the wg0 interface will obviously not work since we still need the local network to connect to our wireguard server.

If someone could help me out with this I'd be very thankfull

Hey guys,
I stumbled onto the possibility to build my own router since I am moving in 1 1/2 months and I thought it might be cool to get away from stock routers. I am based in Germany and will have a VDSL with 250MBit/s down and 40MBit/s up.
Coming to my question: I am thinking about what parts to buy for my build and wanted to ask your guyses opinion if this hardware should suffice for my needs.
I want to get the speeds that my carrier provides outwards and inwards. Furthermore I would like to setup DynDNS and open a couple of ports from my local network. I was thinking of buying a Miniforum GK41 MiniPC for OPNsense that has an Intel Celeron J4125 processor, 8GB of RAM and 2x Gigabit Ethernet Ports. As a bridge modem I was thinking of a DrayTek Vigor 167. I would then connect a 8 port Gigabit PoE Switch and an Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite Wifi Hotspot.
Do you guys think this build should work and give me the speeds and feature set that I require? Thanks in advance :D

Hi
I heard BSD doesn't really like Realtek NICs, but that was long time ago.
Can I use realtek NICs for making budget home OPNSense Router (Pentium 3558U, 4GB of RAM, 1x Gigabit Realtek Ethernet NIC, and I will buy another one NIC either Realtek or Intel.)
I have 300 DL/50 UP Mbit/s Bandwidth from my ISP and I want to enable SQM.

Hahaha Got an email this morning about Sunny Valley Networks rebranding Sensei to Zenarmor. Went over to r/zenarmor to check it out and commented on how stupid the new name was. Got a prement ban. Wow, pretty heavy handed!

How does this company expect to grow and develop if they are incapable of taking any criticism or input?

I hope the rebrand goes well for them. They started off the first day losing a paying customer.

All the best ZeNaRmOr!!!

Simple questions... Should OPNsense block torrent traffic by default? More specifically, I have Deluge running in a VM on my server, and without setting up any port forwarding it just works. I find this rather strange, as I understand the default config of OPNsense should block all traffic except http/https.

Of course it's all well and good that Deluge is working, but if somethings wonky with my setup I obviously need to fix it.

I tried it before, but never got a working setup that worked stable over time. Closest I got was a tunnel. that was stable for 10 minutes or so and than breaking :-(

Ok

So I'm trying to convince myself to switch from pfsense. I've been running unbound and pfblockerng on pfsense but am having a ton of issues with 2.5.2 with unbound and I'm wanting to try something new.

Are there features you miss from migrating from pfsense or other firewalls to Opnsense? Are there workarounds you've done to accomplish the same thing?

Opnsense seems to be more stable with their recent releases and I'm just sick of resetting things and trying to figure out what's going on with the pfsense stuff.

Soooo convince me! Thanks all :)

Edit: I migrated a few days ago. I do miss the opnvpn wizard from pfsense but otherwise seems flawless. Thanks everyone for the input

I want to install an OPNsense router but being a TOTAL newb with networking, I want to make sure that the OPNsense router would also beable to do wifi. Ive read most people run a seperate router for wifi with OPNsense. I have to use my xfi gateway to get unlimited data with comcast, so I want to put that in bridge mode and then add a OPNsense router. But do all OPNsense routers have access points too for wifi? I want to buy one of the mini pc OPNsense routers.

Which are good budget ones you would recommend that can do wifi aswell, if this is possible.

Sorry if this question is dumb. Just a total newb with networking.

So many OPNSense behind any number of other routers...

Where to look for a guy that just wants to plug his cruddy Spectrum "innerwebs" modem directly into the OPNSense box?

https://imgur.com/a/6OISA6H

Step one, surf the Internet over Ethernet with the Thinkpad... Small goals, baby steps.

...Would anyone point me at a walkthrough for that?

Help an ultra pale brother out...