• Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    What would be the difference of running this as opposed to pf/opnsense? I know they use FreeBSD but I am not that versed in BSD based networking

    • Oliver Lowe@hachyderm.ioOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      pf/opnsense essentially provide web interfaces to the underlying
      FreeBSD OS tooling. In this case I’m running plain OpenBSD. That means
      configuring the system is mainly done by reading and writing text
      files and doing stuff at the command line. There’s a whole bunch of
      reasons why some people prefer one way or the other or even mix things
      up a bit. My recommendation is, if you’re interested, have a go
      administering a system without a web interface and see how you feel!
      @Edgarallenpwn @selfhosted

    • Daughter3546@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I personally would stick to *sense. I personally used OPNSense there’s a huge community backing, well documented, and actively maintained. I like to use the CLI, but using the Web GUI was a breeze and I mainly wanted to set it and forget it.