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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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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

Web proxy integration

To control what guests can access on the internet, we can apply some web proxy controls. As we explored in the last chapter, the native web proxy features on OPNsense provide reasonable control of internet content. It is a good idea to control what guests access on the internet. Depending on each country's laws, it may not be allowed to inspect users' web browsing traffic, so check whether you can do this first!

In this section, we'll take the necessary steps to enable web filtering on the GuestNet, integrating it with the web proxy, as follows:

Important Note

Before we start working through the following steps, make sure that the web proxy is up and running. If you aren't sure how to do that, please refer to Chapter 20, API – Application Programming Interface, for the steps to configure the web proxy with the transparent method.

Remember to disable or remove the NAT port forwarding rules created in the previous chapter to...

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