pfSense
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Mar 24, 2026first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Pfsense and maybe openwrt allow split horizon DNS that allows Wireguard tunnels to work seamlessly”
“I’ve been using OpnSense/pfsense [0] for years and would highly recommend it.”
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“build their own routers with Pfsense, Opnsense, ClearOS, or one of the many other firewall/router distros”
Caveats and dissent
“the really poor IPv6 support in pfSense”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- FreeDNS 1 mention
- What I self-host 1 mention
- Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? 1 mention
- NetBSD 11.0 Released 1 mention
- OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router 1 mention
- How to Turn Anything into a Router 1 mention
Data: pfsense.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“Since I moved to having a pfSense box at home”
“Pfsense and maybe openwrt allow split horizon DNS that allows Wireguard tunnels to work seamlessly”
“I used to use pfsense and openwrt and stuff but now with Claude I just use a custom Linux distribution”
“I recently switched my router from pfsense to OpenBSD.”
“the really poor IPv6 support in pfSense”
“I’ve been using OpnSense/pfsense [0] for years and would highly recommend it.”
“build their own routers with Pfsense, Opnsense, ClearOS, or one of the many other firewall/router distros”