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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

Installing and setting up the Zenarmor plugin

To install the Zenarmor plugin, we will follow the same steps we used for OPNsense’s other plugins:

  1. Go to System | Firmware | Plugins and click on the + icon on the right-hand side of os-sunnyvalley. This will install SunnyValley’s repository, which will allow you to install Zenarmor:
Figure 16.1 – Sunny Valley repository installation

Figure 16.1 – Sunny Valley repository installation

  1. Once you’ve installed Zenarmor, click on the Status tab and click the Check for updates button to update the newly installed repository:
Figure 16.2 – Updating the packages from the newly installed repository

Figure 16.2 – Updating the packages from the newly installed repository

  1. Go back to the Plugins tab, find the os-sensei package, and click on the + icon to install it. The search box can be found at the top left:
Figure 16.3 – Adding the os-sensei package

Figure 16.3 – Adding the os-sensei package

Important Note

Remember that the plugin was called Sensei...