Hi again,
Sorry for the late response and many thanks for getting back to me on this thread.
The funny thing is that I saw your post comparing OPNsense and pfSense, that's a very interesting comparison while actually, in the meantime, I had already switched to pfSense, where I could set up the OpenVPN - or at least I would say apparently .
At the moment, I am still in an exploration phase, with a basic configuration but while both solutions are great and quite rich, I feel to be more at ease with the pfSense GUI - just a matter of taste. And as most configurations and options are similar to those in OPNsense, this website will still be of great help!
Btw, one difference that I noted between the two systems - and maybe that is the reason why I couldn't set up the VPN in OPNsense but could do it in pfSense - might be linked to hardware compatibility, and especially NICs : I noted some instability with a few NICs on the WAN interface when using OPNsense, while for instance one the NICs that didn't work at all with OPNsense, seems to be working fine with pfSense.
Not sure what the cause of that can be, but it looks like there are more hw compatibility probes on the website https://bsd-hardware.info (nb: there is a linux page too) for OPNsense than for pfSense : it could mean more OPNsense users than for pfSense, or that OPNsense users experience more hw issues and therefore run probes. Just sharing this for info and for thoughts.
Any way, I'll be back to read further pages on the website and look a little bit on rules.
Have a great day!
Sorry for the late response and many thanks for getting back to me on this thread.
The funny thing is that I saw your post comparing OPNsense and pfSense, that's a very interesting comparison while actually, in the meantime, I had already switched to pfSense, where I could set up the OpenVPN - or at least I would say apparently .
At the moment, I am still in an exploration phase, with a basic configuration but while both solutions are great and quite rich, I feel to be more at ease with the pfSense GUI - just a matter of taste. And as most configurations and options are similar to those in OPNsense, this website will still be of great help!
Btw, one difference that I noted between the two systems - and maybe that is the reason why I couldn't set up the VPN in OPNsense but could do it in pfSense - might be linked to hardware compatibility, and especially NICs : I noted some instability with a few NICs on the WAN interface when using OPNsense, while for instance one the NICs that didn't work at all with OPNsense, seems to be working fine with pfSense.
Not sure what the cause of that can be, but it looks like there are more hw compatibility probes on the website https://bsd-hardware.info (nb: there is a linux page too) for OPNsense than for pfSense : it could mean more OPNsense users than for pfSense, or that OPNsense users experience more hw issues and therefore run probes. Just sharing this for info and for thoughts.
Any way, I'll be back to read further pages on the website and look a little bit on rules.
Have a great day!