Now with that out of the way, I did make the decision to go back to Pfsense and all turned out well. Plan your network where you can, and I would even beg to plan for maybe a few things in the future of that network.
What I am saying is don't always be quick to think because there is a few extra pros and things that work out of the box, that everything will be great and meet all your needs. I am not saying there is anything majorly wrong with Opnsense, or it is crap. The documentation also was not as helpful either when searching the web, as most tutorials are geared towards Pfsense. Opnsense has QOS/Traffic Shaper, but no easy to configure wizard, and would require all the rules to really be done manually. The 3rd and 4th final issue, was the ease of setup and documentation. Looked cosmetic for most part, but was still a pain to look at. The 2nd issue I noticed, is that when doing any heavy downloading/browsing or running just a speed test from my gaming computer, the bridge would get heavy out errors from the traffic with the 2.5G card. While setting up and configuring the network, I was having problems with OpnSense keeping the gateway up from packet loss on occasion, especially if I had to restart the Firewall for maintenance or after a configuration/update was done, and it could take time before getting them to correctly talk to each other. At the time I had the cable modem connected to 2 of the other ports of the Intel I350 NIC in LAGG to enable Multigig speeds from my Netgear CM1200 Cable Modem. The 2.5G connection currently was going directly to my Gaming Multimedia Computers 10G Ethernet Port, while 2 of the 1G Ports were going straight into my TP-Link Smart Switch. The way I have my firewall router and network, I needed to bridge at least 1 port from my 2.5G NIC and 2 Ports from the Intel I350-T4 Quad NIC card. As much as OpnSense was streamlining the interface and had more updates, sometimes more is not always good. You would think everything was rosy and good to go once setup and configured. The main reason I switched from Pfsense to Opnsense in the first place, was the interface was slightly more updated, and the fact there could be weekly security updates and at least 2 major update quarterly, plus a big reason was, that out of the box, Opnsense supported my Realtek RTL81225 Dual 2.5G NIC (Intel currently does not have a 2.5G Dual NIC that I could find), after a small update done. Opnsense, or why to use one over the other, as I have personally used both, and recently made the decision to switch back to Pfsense where I started in the first place. I wanted to post this in case anyone else has questions about Pfsense vs.
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