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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to design an OPNsense firewall for a production environment, considering which hardware and network card to use depending on the features that will be enabled. We learned about the FreeBSD network interfaces and practiced some CLI network commands. We also saw how to add new IP addresses to OPNsense using virtual IPs, choosing the right type depending on its usage. In the last section, on diagnostics and troubleshooting, I tried to share with you a little bit of my experience, telling you some true stories about network issues with some examples of how to solve them.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to manage our OPNsense system configuration using WebGUI.