6 engineers on Hacker News describe using OPNsense first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've settled on opnsense running on a spare x86 based machine... My only regret is not making this switch earlier.”
endorse · personal · O3marchnative · 2026-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“run OPNSense... It's been going strong with regular updates (and by regular I mean as regular as your Linux workstation) for over half a decade now.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · alias_neo · 2025-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OPNsense meanwhile ate its own EFI boot partition after a system upgrade and rendered itself unbootable. Not great!”
regret · personal · CursedSilicon · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it does use DNS-based blocking via Unbound blocklists on OPNsense”
neutral · personal · Fnoord · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These days I stick with ISP-provided units or PFSense/OPNSense.”
neutral · personal · metadat · 2023-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run things like OPNsense for firewall/gateway needs, TrueNAS, various controllers”
neutral · production · xoa · 2022-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?