OPNsense

OPNsense is open source, FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software developed by Deciso, a company in the Netherlands that makes hardware and sells support packages for OPNsense. It is a fork of pfSense, which in turn was forked from m0n0wall, which was built on FreeBSD.[3] It was launched in January 2015.[2] When m0n0wall closed down in February 2015 its creator, Manuel Kasper, referred its developer community to OPNsense.[4] OPNsense has a web-based interface and can be used on i386 and x86-64 platforms.[5] Along with acting as a firewall, it has traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities, and others can be added via plugins.[6]

OPNSense
DeveloperDeciso B.V.
OS familyFreeBSD (11.1-RELEASE)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial release2 January 2015 (2015-01-02) as a fork of pfSense
Latest release20.7 ("Legendary Lion") / July 30, 2020 (2020-07-30)[1]
Repository
Platformsi386, x86-64
Kernel typeMonolithic kernel
Influenced byM0n0wall
LicenseSimplified BSD / FreeBSD License[2]
Preceded bypfSense
Official websiteopnsense.org
Support status
Community & Commercial

In November 2017, a World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that the domain opnsense.com was used to discredit OPNsense.[7]

See also

Further reading
  • Upadhyay, Rajneesh (September 30, 2015). "How To Install OPNsense Firewall". Unixmen.

References
  1. "OPNsense 20.7 released". Opnsense.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  2. "Press release: Deciso Launches OPNsense, a New Open Source Firewall Initiative". Deciso via PRNewsWire. January 2, 2015.
  3. Serdar Yegulalp. "Review: 6 slick open source routers". cio.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. Richard Chirgwin (16 Feb 2015). "MOnOwall comes tumbling down". The Register. Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  5. "DistroWatch.com: OPNsense". DistroWatch. November 21, 2017.
  6. Sharma, Mayank; Drake, Nate (September 26, 2017). "What's the best Linux firewall distro?". Linux Format via TechRadar.
  7. "WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2017-1828". WIPO. November 12, 2017.
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