OPNsense is a fork of pfSense, which in turn is a fork of the FreeBSD firewall software m0n0wall. pfSense took what made m0n0wall so good and dialed it up further to create an excellent, robust ...
Hard to research this, given the unique combination of requirements I have. Bufferbloat has been major problem with the extremely asynchronous cable connection I have (300/5) from Charter. Saturate ...
Back in 2003, m0n0wall started as a GUI to manage a firewall. Manuel Kasper, its developer, once said that no option out ...
Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.
I think the important thing about pfSense for me, is that it actually enables highly complicated firewall and routing designs to become possible. When your budget is 0 and you _NEED_ to do something ...