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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

pfSense and OPNsense are firewalls. OpenWRT is router firmware. They're all open source - to varying degrees - and they all have overlapping features and functionality.

Quick breakdown:

  • OpenWRT: originally developed as a replacement for the firmware on Linksys wireless access points. It has grown into a full Linux-based networking OS with extensible features and broad hardware support. The target devices are still mostly wireless routers/access points and the use cases it services are still mainly about wireless networking.
  • pfSense: Originally a fork of m0n0wall, it's a BSD-based firewall distribution. Designed primarily for firewall use cases, it can be loaded on bare metal or in VMs, but it's generally deployed "upstream" from wireless devices - typically it's the device that all of your network traffic passes through on the way in/out of the LAN. Extensible architecture and a rich ecosystem of plugins means that pfSense can also serve as a caching proxy, load balancer, intrusion detection server and logging host.
  • OPNsense: a fork of pfSense. Almost identical use cases. OPNsense has a more usable/modern UI, but lags slightly in support for new features and plugins.

So the question of pfSense or OPNsense is either/or - you'd typically pick one or the other. Note that I'm staying away from the political comments that will invariably come up around this comparison. It's enough to know that both have commercial offerings in addition to their open source versions and people have strong opinions one way or the other.

Either one of either pfSense or OPNsense in conjunction with OpenWRT is common, with OpenWRT on the wireless devices and pfSense/OPNsense at the egress to WAN. In your case, Omada already does what OpenWRT would do - along with some very limited versions of what you could do with pfSense or OPNsense.

It's worth noting that folks often deploy these three open source tools as a method to regain control rather than using a third party cloud based solution like Omada. No judgement, just saying that Omada is the polar opposite of the 'selfhosted' esthetic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My mobile hotspot name is Win32Virus.exe

The looks when I turn it on in an airport...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Sawagani - Japanese river crab. They're tiny; about the size of a US nickel and you eat them fried whole, shell and all. Apparently they aren't exported any more, but I had them at a sushi restaurant in Austin around 2000. They were delicious, like extra-crunchy crab-flavored popcorn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Agreed. Rabbit doesn't taste like chicken to me either. I live close to a rabbit farm, so I get it fairly regularly. To me, it's best as a filler in sausage. I like to make rabbit sausage with apple or cranberry. It's pretty lean so I also add a bit of fat - either pork or beef.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My first cat was diagnosed as diabetic at 9 years old. He lived to 17. We tested him daily - which he didn't mind at all - and usually ended up giving him one shot of insulin per day.

He was the same old cat the entire time. I'm really glad we learned how to take care of him because now I'm not worried about having another diabetic cat. It's just another thing to check on. Cats are just so accommodating when they know you're taking care of them.