Hi What is the difference between pfSense and OpenWRT? Expect one is based on BSD and the other on Linux? [Screenshot 2020-08-31 at 07.24.21]

BSD is a specific distribution of Unix ( Berkeley Software Distribution ). It is subject to the BSD license which has certain restrictions and implications for various types of projects. Linux is extremely similar but basically operates with a different licensing scheme called GNU. In most cases, the…

Could OpenWrt ever become a suitable platform for x86?

It depends on your tasks. Yes, you can already use OpenWrt to manage networking, firewalling and the like. But, general-purpose Linux distros are more suitable in other ways. It's unlikely to change in the near future.

not main target but works quite good, personaly moved to pfsense for main utm , openwrt on ap, i'm happy with this setup [image]

I mean if OpenWrt can at some point be adapted as pfSense and take advantage of all the resources of the PC as they say in this forum about that OS.

OpenWrt can use as much resources as required by the running services. There's no need to use more if your tasks do not require it.

i use custom firewall rules, opendns, vlan and suricata ids - the last one saw somene try to run on openwrt but can't find it now, on pfsense/opnsense this can be configured by 15minutes by gui and works like a charm , and for me pfsense have pretty webgui with dark mode [image]

PFSense is not as good as OpenSense. OpenSense seems to have more up to date packages.

[image] OpenWrt and PFSense Installing and Using OpenWrt I'd go as far and say that they have different goals. pfSense is a full featured firewall/IDS/IPS system which requires beefier hardware by default but on the other hand also provides you with a better integrated sys…

maybe opensense have more packages like working wireguard and often came updates but in my case i like this pfsense webgui :slight_smile: but there is also difference in performance between *sense and openwrt like with openwrt is more than twice time faster on the same hw. there is one more world wo…

OpenWRT will probably never be as popular as pfsense or OPNsense on x86 because pfsense/OPNSense has considerably greater capabilities than OpenWRT. One thing OpenWRT on x86 has going for it is that being linux based, it has far greater hardware support than pfsense/OPNSense's FreeBSD. So if you ha…

Difference between pfSense and OpenWrt

Installing and Using OpenWrt

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