A great resource for an excellently flexible and rock-solid reliable platform.
Have been running pfsense and pfsense clusters for many, many years and had practically nothing but ultra-reliable success stories.
Have been running pfsense and pfsense clusters for many, many years and had practically nothing but ultra-reliable success stories.
Eh... I've had a lot of issues with it on my flakey Charter internet[0] connection. Php-fpm hangs so often I added a cron job to restart it every fifteen minutes, it doesn't always run dhclient when an interface has been down for a bit and then comes back up (cron to the rescue again), the gateway monitor did weird and stupid things and had to be disabled, services aren't always restarted when they crash (Unbound recently) stuff like that.
[0] I am aware that this combination of words is redundant.
Regardless, easy to blame a routing OS for commonly poor quality hardware.
Only issues I had were once I got 50mb up/down with 60+ users, it started to bog down. I virtualized that one in VMWare and that took care of that. I did have one power supply burn out and one CF card die, but those net5501 were in use for 8 years straight before I repurposed them.
For $250 (in 2005 maybe?) for hardware, I can't complain at all.
*Edit
The best part was exporting the backup configs, then tossing them onto a new machine (another Soekris, VM, or PC hardware) and having a new firewall back up in minutes if you had the ethernet ports figured out beforehand.