I looked at pfsense before going with Ubitquti/UniFi. Have to say I'm really happy with it, breeze to setup and does 99% if what you want to do out of the box.
If internet hasn't recovered all local devices will boot up and not even get an IP?
I also realized that we probably don't have this problem. The controller is in a VM that is pretty much only booted when we need to edit something. So most of the time there won't be any controller to talk to during boot.
There are an easy half dozen senior engineers working on pfSense now.
I'm looking forward to any answers on the "are they doing a good job?" portion. Feedback is a gift.
Chris and electric sheep fencing sure felt like the core developer for a while.
Clearly he left for a reason. He’s stayed silent about it but rarely does a founder leave without their company being acquired. Feels like he didn’t like the working relationship as it matured.
Personally, I don’t like the change in pricing for support plans that was implemented and I haven’t recommended the products netgate sells since that change. I was helping sell around 10 of your firewalls a year before that.
Nor do I like how OPNSense was treated by netgate. That was dirty stuff.
In any case, you don’t need me to like how you run your business if you have bigger customers that you pivoted to chase. I was small potato’s.
Still important though. Thanks for writing.