Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab • Hacker News Board

Re: Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab

#61

Post by davidee » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 2:26 PM UTC

kayson wrote: post #51

What did Home+Lab have that CE didn't? I've been using CE for years now and it seems like it's got all the enterprise bells and whistles except support...

I believe the only feature is “boot environments” at the moment. In fact they've diverged so little that, according to various sources online, one should be able to take a working 23.05.1 config (read: pfSense plus) and install it on 2.7CE without issue.

In the Netgate world, it now seems that the CE edition is the most stable, inheriting changes/fixes after they've settled into the plus channel.

Re: Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab

#62

Post by lousken » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

Informative and unfortunate. The only reason I upgraded from CE to plus home was because of boot envs.

Re: Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab

#63

Post by wommy90 » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 4:45 AM UTC

wtcactus wrote: post #29

Well, I was still using pfSense over opnSense due to a bit more polish and having proper Tailscale integration. As soon as Tailscale has proper integration on opnSense, I'm definitively moving on. The CE version of pfSense has very outdated packages and that probably has an impact on security, which, for a Firewall, is a big no. BTW: Does anyone know why Tailscale doesn't provide a proper package (with graphical inte…

it's just 6 lines in the shell, I set it up yesterday

  opnsense-code ports
  cd /usr/ports/security/tailscale
  make install
  service tailscaled enable
  service tailscaled start
  tailscale up

source: https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-set-up-tailscale-on-opnsen...