Hello guys, I got some time these days and thought to ask for help from you guys once again :slight_smile: Pardon me if this topic is not that relevant to be posted in this forum :smiling_face_with_tear: If you remember, i posted a thread months ago and then i got my basics cleared regarding the …

In my opinion this auestion is way out of scope of this forum and better taken to the pfSense or OPNsense forum instead - depending on which you are using, which is not entirely clear to me. Writing OPNsense/pfSense does not make much sense. While they are both based on FreeBSD they are two entirely…

Note you can do failover in pfsense, you don’t need a separate router or anything. Your ISP will or should provide their modem and what ever is needed to connect into your pfsense box. (RJ24/Fiber termination) Buying the TP router is a waste of money and does nothing to help your configuration if y…

I understand that. But previously no one was able to answer the basics at those forum. Hence, i had to knock here

Wow. So, even if i use two ISPs, i should be able to configure failover via pfSense or OpenSense? Is that for real? Also, would i need a different NIC for another WAN or i can use existing NIC? The existing NIC has four ports. Would that work? How fast is the failover switching between two ISPs?

Of course both OPNsense and pfSense support Multi-WAN and failover. The switch is more or less instantaneous. The details are in no way related to TrueNAS but to the firewall system and the uplink configuration alone. I run only OPNsense, sorry, I cannot help with pfSense.

Thank you for the information. Appreciate that :slight_smile: BTW, any specific reason to use OpenSense over pfSense? Unlike UNRAID and TrueNAS, where TrueNAS is more rock solid and optimized and is the real NAS software in opensource market, is it same with the pfSense and OpenSense?

[image] Fastline: any specific reason to use OpenSense over pfSense? [image] pfSense vs. OPNsense General Discussion About five years back, I started a thread on this question on the old forum which ended up being surprisingly active and long-running, with discussio…

[image] Fastline: BTW, any specific reason to use OpenSense over pfSense? I like the product and its features better? Also the “open source first, community first” development model is what I prefer. I have submitted a dozen pull requests with bug fixes or features by now.

Sounds good. Thanks for the confirmation dear @dan :slight_smile:

So, its like UNRAID vs TrueNAS and i think the same reason applies here when comparing pfSense and OpenSense, yeah?

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Both pfSense and OPNsense support multi-WAN failover, and the documentation for each product describes how to configure it.

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