PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel

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Post by thebiss » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel
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Post by elromulous » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:55 PM UTC

This must be an April fool's joke. It's dated 4/1.

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Post by kaladin-jasnah » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:56 PM UTC

Are there prior projects that have the Linux kernel with a "FreeBSD userland"? This is the first time I'm hearing of such an idea. What would that entail? This report isn't particularly clear on such technical details.

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Post by illusive4080 » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:57 PM UTC

elromulous wrote: post #2

This must be an April fool's joke. It's dated 4/1.

Doesn’t read like one

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Post by craftkiller » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:58 PM UTC

Looks like I made the right choice switching to OPNsense a couple months ago.

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Post by craftkiller » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 4:59 PM UTC

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #3

Are there prior projects that have the Linux kernel with a "FreeBSD userland"? This is the first time I'm hearing of such an idea. What would that entail? This report isn't particularly clear on such technical details.

https://chimera-linux.org/

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Post by bjw4 » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC

Maybe we’ll see decent PPPoE performance from PFSense in the future then - had to move to OpenWrt as PFSense has a single threaded implementation

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Post by silverquiet » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 5:01 PM UTC

illusive4080 wrote: post #4

elromulous wrote: post #2

This must be an April fool's joke. It's dated 4/1.

Doesn’t read like one

Yeah, I think this is a joke, but only because it's a big change announced on April 1; it reads pretty serious. Especially the part about how TrueNAS already made the switch - that was my first though on seeing the headline.

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Post by braiamp » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #3

Are there prior projects that have the Linux kernel with a "FreeBSD userland"? This is the first time I'm hearing of such an idea. What would that entail? This report isn't particularly clear on such technical details.

Depending on the specifics on what do you mean: Truenas.

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Post by topspin » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

bjw4 wrote: post #7

Maybe we’ll see decent PPPoE performance from PFSense in the future then - had to move to OpenWrt as PFSense has a single threaded implementation

I associate PPPoE with dial up modems. What is the use case of this today? Also, PPPoE has been around for a quarter century: why hasn't FreeBSD delivered on it? And how is a single thread not enough to fill a broadband pipe?

So many questions.

So DSL and maybe Fiber services. Ok, but ISPs provide or endorse some device to deal with the wire. At that point you're free to firewall your ordinary ethernet traffic with whatever you wish, no PPPoE involved, no?