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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

You're reading from   OPNsense Beginner to Professional Protect networks and build next-generation firewalls easily with OPNsense

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816878
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Initial Configuration
2. Chapter 1: An OPNsense Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing OPNsense 4. Chapter 3: Configuring an OPNsense Network 5. Chapter 4: System Configuration 6. Section 2: Securing the Network
7. Chapter 5: Firewall 8. Chapter 6: Network Address Translation (NAT) 9. Chapter 7: Traffic Shaping 10. Chapter 8: Virtual Private Networking 11. Chapter 9: Multi-WAN – Failover and Load Balancing 12. Chapter 10: Reporting 13. Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall
14. Chapter 11: Deploying DHCP in OPNsense 15. Chapter 12: DNS Services 16. Chapter 13: Web Proxy 17. Chapter 14: Captive Portal 18. Chapter 15: Network Intrusion (Detection and Prevention) Systems 19. Chapter 16: Next-Generation Firewall with Zenarmor 20. Chapter 17: Firewall High Availability 21. Chapter 18: Website Protection with OPNsense 22. Chapter 19: Command-Line Interface 23. Chapter 20: API – Application Programming Interface 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Diagnostics and troubleshooting

Truth has no answer – against facts, it's difficult to argue, so always count on logs and diagnostics tools to help you solve issues related to firewalls. Based on facts, your troubleshooting will be as sharp as a katana (a samurai's sword). As an airplane pilot, aviation experience taught me that things must be checked using a checklist based on facts, and as a firewall administrator, experience has taught me that a firewall will be blamed for network problems in 99.9% of cases. So, don't guess a problem – check it! OPNsense has a lot of tools that can help you with your troubleshooting. In time, users will start relying on just your word and not blame the firewall for any network (or maybe entire internet) problems. This is my advice for you based on a couple of decades of personal experience.

Starting at Diagnostic tools, go to Firewall | the Diagnostics menu:

  • pfInfo: This page shows different information based...
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