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OPNsense vs trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

A side-by-side look at OPNsense and trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

OPNsense

OPNsense

Network & Admin

OPNsense is an open source firewall and routing software based on FreeBSD. It features a stateful packet filtering firewall, traffic shaping, VPN capabilities, intrusion detection and prevention, and centralized logging and reporting.

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trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

Network & Admin

Trickle is a userspace bandwidth shaper for Linux. It allows limiting the bandwidth used by a process, group of processes, or network interface. It's useful for rate-limiting backups, downloads, etc to prevent using all available bandwidth.

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