OPNsense Reviews

We just use the solution normally for its basic firewall functionality. OPNsense with WireGuard and CrowdSec bouncers handles all our requirements. 

This is a free and secure solution that is easy to use.

The normal security options are great. 

It's light and easy to manage.

The solution is very stable.

The initial implementation process is simple. 

The solution offers a free version.

While they do have paid options that actually give better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet.

They should make it so that it's easier to reverse proxy integration.

I have been using this solution for two years.

The product is quite stable and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We can easily scale the solution if we need to. It's not difficult. 

I've only used the free version of the solution. I just have to dig into the forums to find everything I need. There isn't a central place you can reach out to. I've found all the answers I've needed so far via the forums. There's a lot of information there. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

We're a customer and an end-user.

We are using the telemetry-free version of the solution. 

Overall, the solution is quite affordable. 

I'm aware of Fortinet as well. 

It depends on price versus performance. If you're willing to pay, Fortinet's great. If you don't have the budget, OPNsense is more affordable.

We do supply the solution and we do use it for ourselves.

I'd advise users to get the Geo functionality. It's a nice add-on, which we make use of a lot. It allows which countries are allowed to access your instances, which is very helpful. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. 

The solution is easy to use and is accessible. I can also use it without paying. The configuration is very easy, and the website makes it easy to find help if you need it.

So far, everything is okay. We've just started using the solution.

As long as they continue to ensure that we are protected, it will be perfect.

The stability of the solution is good.

We haven't had to contact technical support. If we have questions, we're typically able to find answers via the website.

We did previously use another solution, but I don't recall the name. We didn't like the performance we were getting out of it.

The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy.

I handled the implementation myself.

We use the private cloud deployment model.

I would advise others thinking of implementing the solution to be aware of what you have to do to, and to plan it out beforehand. The solution is not for everybody, but it's not difficult to set up or maintain.

I would rate the solution ten out of ten.

I use it for network traffic and routing for management. It improves the overall management and the traffic.

It helps to improve network security. It does its job. 

It is easy to maintain. It is free. So, it is for small offices. It is a very good solution.

I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it. 

If I require many site-to-site connections or prioritize advanced features, I might look at the other products.

I have been using it for half a year. 

There was no need for scaling in our case. 

Our customers are mostly small-sized businesses. 

I found everything I needed online.

I have experience with Check Point and other products like Fortinet. They're different types of tools for different purposes. 

My experience is that OPNsense is great for installing and setting up, and then I almost forget about it. It is a good tool for everyday use.

If I require many site-to-site connections or prioritize advanced features, I might look at the other products.

It is free. 

If you're new to firewalls, I might recommend using this solution. It's very user-friendly, especially for the first-time users.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I am currently working with OPNsense to see if I can learn it. This product is used in small to medium-sized businesses for security, UTM, and other similar operations. We are a solution provider and this is one of the security solutions that we implement for our clients.

Offering this solution has provided some of our clients with firewall protection and UTM, which basically just protects them from the internet.

The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities.

The vendor should offer compatibility-approved boxes, or at least stock one with OPNsense already installed. This would make it a one-stop-shop, and people would not have to worry about sourcing the hardware separately.

I would like to see better SD-WAN performance. I think that could be a very good bonus because SD-WAN is all the rage these days. That is probably the big thing that people need to improve upon, in terms of combining two, three, or four links.

The interface should continue to improve, which would make things a bit easier. For me, it was already easy, but nonetheless, it is quicker to install a FortiGate firewall.

I have been working with OPNsense for approximately one year.

This is a very stable product and I've had no issues with it.

This product is very scalable. I always buy hardware that can handle a lot of connections and a lot of users. So, in terms of scalability, all you have to do is upgrade your hardware. Or, it is especially scalable if you use the VM version because you only have to provision more resources.

We regularly have between 20 and 50 users, although sometimes it is as little as 5 or 10.        

I have not been in contact with technical support. So far, everything has been good because I just use Google to find all of the answers and all of my solutions.

I primarily work with FortiGate, but I am currently dabbling in OPNSense to see if I can learn it. I've also installed Cisco in the past, as well as Sophos.

FortiGate is a better firewall but that is commercial software that you have to buy a license for. OPNsense is suitable for small to medium-sized businesses. FortiGate is definitely quicker to install because you just buy the appliance. It's also more user-friendly.

If you dabble a bit with OPNsense, it can do about 90% of what FortiGate can do, but FortiGate is more user-friendly. Of course, with OPNsense being open-source, it will always beat FortiGate on price.

I think that with FortiGate, it is easier to log a support call. I haven't really needed technical support for OPNsense, but I know that FortiGate has the score logging facility, whereby you can just quickly log a call. There's also support in South Africa and I know company people that I can just call for help with FortiGate. But with OPNsense, I haven't really had a complicated setup, so for me, it has been okay and it hasn't been an issue.

The SD-WAN is also better on FortiGate. I think that they are heavily focused on security, so they might have better application profiles and other things, such as application threat detections.

Although about 80% of our clients ask for FortiGate, some of our clients ask for Sophos instead. For example, there are some banks and commercial institutions that ask for Sophos.

The initial setup is straightforward and quite simplified. I work in a Linux environment so for me, it will be a bit easier.

OPNsense is an open-source solution and it is free to use. You need only purchase the hardware.

The suitability of this product often depends on the size of the company, although sometimes there are clients that just want FortiGate and they're not open for negotiation. Personally, I like open-source and it's always a bonus if I can get stuff for free.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

It is the main firewall for one of our locations. We use it for intrusion detection and prevention. We are using the latest software version, but the hardware is not the latest.

The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication.

Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls.

Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used. 

The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform.

I started to use OPNsense about three years ago.

It is stable, but for us, it is not yet so reliable. Our server is an old DL120 HP Server, which is from the year 2006. We have ordered another appliance. After we receive the new appliance, it would be more stable for us.

It scales well for our needs. I haven't tried any horizontal or vertical scaling so far.

I did not need any technical support.

I used pfSense two years ago, but I was not so happy with our system protection. I have also previously used Cisco ASA appliance. It was a 5505 model, but it failed because of the hardware issues. It was prone to hardware failure, and in one month, we lost both firewalls. It was also not so easy to see traffic with Cisco ASA. I could not easily identify traffic issues. 

The initial setup was straightforward. I also have experience with BSD services, so I had no issues at all. It took us half an hour to deploy it for 250 users.

We deployed it ourselves. There was no need for a consultant for the deployment. We have two engineers for its deployment and maintenance.

It is not an expensive product. Basically, I deployed it because it was the fastest solution to satisfy our needs in open source.

We plan to continue using this solution. Right now, we are settling our networks. We plan to expand its usage, but I don't think it will happen until 2022.

It has a good user interface. Its configuration is simple but requires a little planning. It is much simpler than the Cisco ASA configuration.

I would recommend this solution. I would rate OPNsense a nine out of ten. I am happy with it.

The solution is primarily used as a basic firewall. I'm running my WiFi through it.

The solution is very user-friendly.

It's easy to manage and deploy.

The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use.

The solution can't compete with next-generation firewalls.

The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale.

I've been using the solution for a year or two.

There are issues with the VPN availability, but overall, the is a pretty smooth connection.

We have two people running the solution and another 50 to 80 people using the solution, so we have a relatively small setup.

The solution is scalable and can be deployed to multiple VMs.

I've never reached out to technical support. If I run into problems, I tend to Google queries in order to find solutions.

I was not at the company when they had a different solution, so I am unsure as to what it was.

Currently, I'm looking for another firewall and I am working on upgrading. We may use an Ignition firewall in the near future.

I've also deployed a couple of different firewalls in the past, including Huawei.

The solution wasn't too complex, but the VPN setup isn't so reliable. It sometimes misbehaves or malfunctions or breaks down automatically. Occasionally it disconnects and you can't transfer the data from it.

Deployment took about a day or so. It takes maybe five or six hours to get everything up and running.

Since it's a simple firewall, anyone who has basic firewall knowledge can run and maintain it.

I had some help internally from our network team when I was implementing the solution. However, I did not need outside assistance from a consultant or integrator.

We are using a free version of the solution.

I'm just a customer. I'm not a partner or reseller.

I'm not sure which version of the solution our organization is currently using. I understand that it is the most up-to-date version. I updated it two months ago.

The solution is good for a small business or home. I'm not sure what the paid version offers or if it has more security features that would be suitable for larger businesses. The version I'm using works well and is simple. It's more reliable than a router.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

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.

We use the solution for an SD-WAN firewall.

We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable.

The solution could be more secure. 

I have been using OPNsense for upwards of ten years. 

The solution is very stable.

The solution is scalable. 

As we have in excess of 2,000 solutions deployed in the field, there is no need for us to increase its usage. It is already sufficiently increased. 

In the past we used pfSense. We have also used Sophos and Palo Alto Firewall but have replaced many of these solutions.

Our initial setup was more on the straightforward side.

It did not take a long time, although this can hinge on what needs to be accomplished. 

We handled the deployment on our own. 

The technical team required for deployment and maintenance purposes is small, probably around five people for every 100 devices.

It consist of a combination of managers, administrators and engineers.

The choice of a license on a yearly or monthly basis is optional. 

The solution is not expensive. 

There are several hundred users in our organization who are utilizing the solution. 

I would absolutely recommend the solution to others who are contemplating its implementation.

I rate OPNsense as a ten out of ten.