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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

Configuration backup

OPNsense saves all the configuration settings in an XML file, /conf/config.xml, and it is extremely important to save it in a safe place that will allow you to restore this configuration if it is necessary.

OPNsense offers some embedded options to save this configuration in external cloud drives such as Google Drive and Nextcloud (using an additional plugin). This book will not cover the configuration of how to use backup configuration, but you can find information at https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cloud_backup.html. Some plugins can help with this task also; check out the OPNsense plugins list at System | Firmware | Plugins.

To back up your system configuration files, you can go to System | Configuration | Backups.

Figure 4.16 – Configuration backup and restore page

Figure 4.16 – Configuration backup and restore page

Click on the Download configuration button to download the configuration file to your computer's local disk. Check Encrypt this configuration...