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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
5 (1)
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 plugins

Plugins can be very helpful to extend OPNsense features or even to just customize them. In this section, we will install a theme plugin that will change the WebGUI look and feel.

You can find the available plugins in the System | Firmware | Plugins menu:

Figure 2.43 – Accessing the Plugins menu

There are dozens of plugins listed and the list is growing. To test a plugin installation, we will get a new OPNsense WebGUI theme, a dark one!

To do that, select a plugin theme and just click on the + button:

Figure 2.44 – Installing a new WebGUI theme plugin

After that the plugin should be installed:

Figure 2.45 – Plugin installation process output

When a plugin is installed, it will appear at the top of the list in bold as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.46 – Installed plugins

Congratulations, you just installed your first plugin...