PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel

It's an April Fool's joke.

  "jwt NETGATE 3 days ago
  @johnpoz said in Serious ....:
    I don't recall them doing things before about April fools
  we (I) did, back in 2017 https://www.netgate.com/blog/building-a-behemoth-router
  I even pointed to it in today's."

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/187100/serious/6?_=171214303...

craftkiller|1 year ago

Looks like I made the right choice switching to OPNsense a couple months ago.

ActionHank|1 year ago

You mean aside from the complete lack of professionalism from Netgate \ pfSense?

When I was first looking for something to run at home I looked into them and frankly they are bad actors and should not be trusted.

ensignavenger|1 year ago

Are you just opposed to the Linux kernel, or just a big fan of FreeBSD, or is there a technical reason why you think a FreeBSD base is better than a Linux base for a project like this?

bjw4|1 year ago

Maybe we’ll see decent PPPoE performance from PFSense in the future then - had to move to OpenWrt as PFSense has a single threaded implementation

ActionHank|1 year ago

I actually ended up moving away from pf\OpnSense because of this.

No matter what switches I toggled or incantations I recited I would not get full line speed.

topspin|1 year ago

I associate PPPoE with dial up modems. What is the use case of this today? Also, PPPoE has been around for a quarter century: why hasn't FreeBSD delivered on it? And how is a single thread not enough to fill a broadband pipe?

So many questions.

So DSL and maybe Fiber services. Ok, but ISPs provide or endorse some device to deal with the wire. At that point you're free to firewall your ordinary ethernet traffic with whatever you wish, no PPPoE involved, no?

elromulous|1 year ago

This must be an April fool's joke. It's dated 4/1.

illusive4080|1 year ago

Doesn’t read like one

kaladin-jasnah|1 year ago

Are there prior projects that have the Linux kernel with a "FreeBSD userland"? This is the first time I'm hearing of such an idea. What would that entail? This report isn't particularly clear on such technical details.

craftkiller|1 year ago

https://chimera-linux.org/

kstrauser|1 year ago

I'd forgotten that some Debian folks tried the exactly opposite for a while, a FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland: https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

braiamp|1 year ago

Depending on the specifics on what do you mean: Truenas.

freedomben|1 year ago

If you're going to perpetuate this awful tradition (it was a little bit funny the first couple of years, but the funny has long since worn off), at least mark your post as clearly "April Fools" on or before April 2nd. Clever April Fools gag, but poorly executed because of this.

ttt3ts|1 year ago

Poorly executed april fools joke?

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