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by krautburglar 87 days ago
If you know your platform, it is set-it-and-forget-it. I use CLI OpenBSD as a router, and it has been far less trouble than any of the ready-made GUI ones I have ever used.

The ready-mades are brutally under-powered, have snowflake UIs that have to be re-learned on each revision, and have very short firmware update windows, so have to be replaced (and the UI re-learned) every few years. While with my OpenBSD thing, it's just `sysupgrade` then `pkg_add -u` -- for almost a decade now.

But yeah, if you're just copy-pasting without understanding, OPNSense is far better.