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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 about the OPNsense packet filtering system (the pf). We also learned what a stateful firewall is and how to check states on OPNsense, how to manage aliases and rules, how they are processed in OPNsense, creating rules' schedules, changing firewall settings, and explored firewall diagnostics and troubleshooting. Now you understand how OPNsense's firewalling works, how to create aliases and rules, how to adjust firewall settings, and how to troubleshoot firewall issues. Understanding firewalling is important in preparation for moving on to the next chapters.

In the next chapter, we'll continue the firewalling saga by exploring NAT rules!