OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build HardenedBSD based firewall and routing platform.
OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings with the benefits of open and verifiable sources.
OPNsense started as a fork of pfSense and m0n0wall in 2014, with its first official release in January 2015.
Features include:
- Traffic Shaper.
- Two-factor Authentication throughout the system.
- Captive portal.
- Forward Caching Proxy (transparent) with Blacklist support.
- Virtual Private Network (site to site & road warrior, IPsec, OpenVPN & legacy PPTP support).
- High Availability & Hardware Failover ( with configuration synchronization & synchronized state tables).
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention.
- Build-in reporting and monitoring tools including RRD Graphs.
- Netflow Exporter.
- Network Flow Monitoring.
- Support for plugins.
- DNS Server & DNS Forwarder.
- DHCP Server and Relay.
- Dynamic DNS.
- Encrypted configuration backup to Google Drive.
- Stateful inspection firewall.
- Granular control over state table.
- 802.1Q VLAN support.
Website: opnsense.org
Support: GitHub Code Repositories
Developer: Deciso B.V.
License: 2-clause BSD license
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