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| networking:opnsense_using [2024/11/18 14:41] – [Sowftware Installation] willy | networking:opnsense_using [2025/03/13 14:16] (current) – [opnSense] willy |
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| ====== opnSense ====== | ====== F) Using opnSense ====== |
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| [[https://opnsense.org/|opnSense]] is the //"Free & Open source - Everything essential to protect your network and more"//. In other words, opnSense is going to be: | [[https://opnsense.org/|opnSense]] is the //"Free & Open source - Everything essential to protect your network and more"//. In other words, opnSense is going to be: |
| The most important piece here is having four network cards (ethernet connections), because the whole point of opnSense is to be plugged into all your networks and operate as switch / firewall / gateway for your LAN, WAN and VLANs. | The most important piece here is having four network cards (ethernet connections), because the whole point of opnSense is to be plugged into all your networks and operate as switch / firewall / gateway for your LAN, WAN and VLANs. |
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| Since opnSense is based on FreeBSD (or OpenBSD? can't remember...) you should make sure the hardware you want to use is supported, since the *BSD has somewhat less support than Linux. Specially your WiFi will most probably __not__ be supported. | Since opnSense is based on FreeBSD you should make sure the hardware you want to use is supported, since the FreeBSD kernel has somewhat less support than Linux. Specially your WiFi will most probably __not__ be supported. |
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