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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Camargo
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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

OPNsense Beginner to Professional

4.3 (8)
By: 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)
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Section 1: Initial Configuration
6
Section 2: Securing the Network
13
Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall

Managing the backend daemons

The OPNsense architecture is composed of a frontend and a backend. In the next chapter, we will explore OPNsense's architecture to learn how to use its Application Programming Interface (API). For now, let's say that the backend is the part that interacts with the system daemons, and eventually, you may want to change some daemon states by stopping, starting, or restarting using it. The service in charge of interacting with daemon states and also writing its configuration file is configd. To manage the configd service with the CLI, we can use the configctl command:

root@bluebox:/tmp # configctl -h
usage: configd_ctl.py [-h] [-m] [-e] [-d] [-q] [-t T] command [command ...]
positional arguments:
  command     command(s) to execute
optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -m          execute multiple arguments...

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