OPNsense
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| Developer | Deciso B.V. |
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| OS family | FreeBSD (11.1-RELEASE) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 2 January 2015 as a fork of pfSense |
| Latest release | 20.7 ("Legendary Lion") / July 30, 2020[1] |
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| Platforms | i386, x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic kernel |
| Influenced by | M0n0wall |
| License | Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License[2] |
| Preceded by | pfSense |
| Official website | opnsense |
| Support status | |
| Community & Commercial | |
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]
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
- ^ "OPNsense 20.7 released". Opnsense.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ a b "Press release: Deciso Launches OPNsense, a New Open Source Firewall Initiative". Deciso via PRNewsWire. January 2, 2015.
- ^ Serdar Yegulalp. "Review: 6 slick open source routers". cio.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "DistroWatch.com: OPNsense". DistroWatch. November 21, 2017.
- ^ Sharma, Mayank; Drake, Nate (September 26, 2017). "What's the best Linux firewall distro?". Linux Format via TechRadar.
- ^ "WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2017-1828". WIPO. November 12, 2017.