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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 19: Command-Line Interface

This chapter will explore the shell command-line interface (CLI). We will explore some of the most relevant FreeBSD commands to manage the system, networking, and firewalling. We will also learn how to customize some parts of the system and use commands to improve information extraction from logs. At the end of this chapter, you will be capable of running commands on the OPNsense CLI for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes. 

We will explore the following topics:

  • Directory structure
  • Managing the configd backend daemon
  • Useful system commands 
  • Advanced customization
  • Filtering log files