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[–] Unfold1127@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just moved to an OPNsense network. Setting up unbound was so nice and simple. Much preferred over pihole.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed. I used pihole initially when I was first learning networking, but when I got a dedicated machine and installed OPNsense, I learned how much easier so many things can be.

[–] Unfold1127@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The downside is OPNsense is it's information light, and a bit inscrutable lol I'm having an issue with my WAN dhcp going offline, seems to be happening on a cadence. My modem is fine, connection is valid. Rebooting the OPNsense box fixes it. Losing my mind a bit but I'll figure it out 🙃

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Try setting a tunable of:

net.link.ether.inet.max_age = 540

By default FreeBSD sets a 20 minute ARP maximum age while many ONT’s set a 9 minute maximum age. This will show up as performance issues initially then cause other issues.

Also Realtek NIC's are notorious for issues with FreeBSD, so if you are using one replacing it with an Intel one is highly recommended.