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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Book Image

OPNsense Beginner to Professional

5 (1)
By: Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Overview of this book

OPNsense is one of the most powerful open source firewalls and routing platforms available. With OPNsense, you can now protect networks using features that were only previously available to closed source commercial firewalls. This book is a practical guide to building a comprehensive network defense strategy using OPNsense. You’ll start with the basics, understanding how to install, configure, and protect network resources using native features and additional OPNsense plugins. Next, you’ll explore real-world examples to gain in-depth knowledge of firewalls and network defense. You’ll then focus on boosting your network defense, preventing cyber threats, and improving your knowledge of firewalling using this open source security platform. By the end of this OPNsense book, you’ll be able to install, configure, and manage the OPNsense firewall by making the most of its features.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Initial Configuration
6
Section 2: Securing the Network
13
Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall

Chapter 14: Captive Portal

In this chapter, we will learn about Captive Portal concepts, how to configure and use the Captive Portal with OPNsense, the most common issues while configuring a Captive Portal, and how to solve them. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to set up a guest network to authenticate and control guest hosts using a Captive Portal and web proxy with OPNsense. Specifically, we'll be looking at the following topics:

  • Captive Portal concepts
  • Setting up a guest network
  • Web proxy integration
  • Common issues