OPNsense

i've been looking into firewall 'applications' recently. i've been wanting to mess with AP's again and build a local MESH network for a client that's gotten back in touch again about building a kinda RFID/GEO hunting game that uses online certificates collection as rewards (i'll probably hunt that actually)

► Easy User Interface
► Stateful Firewall
► Traffic Shaper
► Two-Factor Authentication ( 2FA )
► Captive Portal
► Virtual Private Network
► High Availability CARP
► Filtering Caching Proxy
► Inline Intrusion Prevention
► Multi-WAN Load Balancing
► High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
► Issue Let's Encrypt Certificates
► Full Mesh VPN routing using Tinc
► Backup to Google Drive
► Support for Virtual Installs
► Netflow Exporter
► Network Flow Monitoring
► Built-in Reporting & Analysis
► Plugin Support
► REST API

i remember playing around with m0nowall back in the day and while liking it, it was a bit too hardcore, this seems like a good middle ground to what i need.