Nethsecurity 8 project

m_farlotta · January 25, 2023, 9:10am

Good morning everyone
I wanted to know how far the Nethsecurity 8 project is
I find the possibility of switching from version 7 to 8 interesting
via web interface

thank you

alefattorini · January 25, 2023, 3:57pm

Yes, you will be able to do it.

pike · January 25, 2023, 11:34pm

When?

giacomo · January 26, 2023, 1:18pm

We are working hard under the hood, you can follow the project here: Home | NextSecurity

Since a couple of months This the migration package with Cockpit UI: GitHub - NethServer/nethserver-firewall-migration: Migration of NS7 firewall to Nextsecurity

You can install from command line:

yum --enablerepo=nethserver-testing install nethserver-firewall-migration

Then, if you want to configure the new project from the UI, you still need to use LuCI.

pike · January 26, 2023, 2:28pm

Yikes. Dumb me that I missed the announcement…

pike · February 4, 2023, 2:09pm

Missing/Liked/Desiderata.

.img file don’t play nice (currently) with Ventoy. Which is quite a bummer: it recognize it as OpenWRT but that doesn’t start.
.ISO version or compatibility with ventoy are both interesting options to me.

pike · February 4, 2023, 2:54pm

Desiderata Act II: shell procedure to define at least the green ip address interface.
And use gloves. I had my hand got pretty scratched after install.

Not a matter of polishing, still a lot of bending, twisting, hammering and dewarping need to be done.
Maybe NextSec will gain traction, but currently the name for me is “FeatureStripped”.
I’m gonna meet PfSense…

danb35 · February 4, 2023, 4:28pm

I’d recommend OPNsense over pfSense. Neither is perfect though.