Features OPNsense® pfSense® CE

Firewall Stateful inspection Stateful inspection

Bootstrap based on Phalcon PHP

Web Based Graphical Interface Framework * From 2.3 migrated to Bootstrap

Installation Setup Wizard Yes Yes

Configurable Dashboard Yes Yes

IPv4 and IPv6 support Yes Yes

Wireless Access Point Yes Yes

Wireless Client Support Yes Yes

Setup and filter/isolate multiple – Yes

Interfaces (LAN] DMZ] etc.) Yes Yes

Traffic Shaping Yes Yes

State Table controls Yes Yes

NAT Yes Yes

Redundancy/High Availability Yes Yes

Multi-WAN Support Yes Yes

Server Inbound Load Balancing Yes (Virtual Server Setup) Yes

Network diagnostic utilities See below See below

[ping] Yes Yes

[traceroute] Yes Yes

more with packages] such as

[port tests via the GUI] Yes nmap

VPN

[IPsec (including Phase 2 NAT)] Yes Yes

[OpenVPN] Yes Yes

[L2TP] Yes (tramite plugin) Yes (through package)

[PPPoE] Yes (tramite plugin) Yes (through package)

[PPTP] Yes (Non considerata sicura) No (Taken because not sure)

RRD Graphs No (System Health) Yes

Real-time interface traffic graphs Yes Yes

Dynamic DNS Yes Yes

Captive Portal Yes Yes

DHCP Server and Relay (IPv4 and IPv6) Yes Yes

Command line shell access Yes Yes

Wake on LAN Yes Yes

Built in packet capture / sniffer Yes Yes

Backup and restore the fw configuration Yes Yes

Edit files via the web GUI Yes Yes

Virtual interfaces for:

[VLAN] Yes Yes

[LAGG/LACP] Yes/No Yes/Yes

[GIF] Yes Yes

[GRE] Yes Yes

[PPPoE/PPTP/L2TP/PPP WANs] Yes/Yes/Yes/Yes Yes/Yes/Yes/Yes

[QinQ] and Bridges] Yes Yes

Caching DNS Forwarder/Resolver Yes Yes

Can be run in many virtualization env. Yes Yes

Proxy Server Yes using packages

Yes (based on Suricata: già

IPS incluso) SNORT (EXTRA PACKAGE)

Yes (based on Suricata: già

IDS incluso) SNORT (EXTRA PACKAGE)

Security Update Yes Weekly Yes with patch fix release

Raid Software Yes unofficially supported* Yes full supported