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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

Chapter 6: Network Address Translation (NAT)

Following the last chapter, where we explored firewalling, Network Address Translation (NAT) is a simple way to have an entire local network using a single public IP address. Since NAT is an IPv4-exclusive method, we will not explore IPv6 and its equivalent NPTv6 (also known as NAT66). This book aims to provide valuable and practical information. Unfortunately, these days, IPv6 and NPTv6 aren't the predominantly used technology in local networks.

IPv6 Adoption

According to Google's IPv6 statistics page (in July 2021), IPv6 adoption was 35% globally (https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html).

Coming back to our chapter's topic, we will learn about NAT concepts, which types OPNsense supports, and how to create NAT rules on WebGUI. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to manage NAT rules on OPNsense and will understand how the NAT method works.

The following are the topics we'll explore in...