In this tutorial you will learn how to install OPNSENSE 21.7 NOBBLE NIGHTINGALE on oracle VM virtualbox 6.1 in just about 10 minutes or less. OPNsense is an open source, FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software developed by Deciso, a company in the Netherlands that makes hardware and sells support packages for OPNsense. It is a fork of pfSense, which in turn was forked from m0n0wall, which was built on FreeBSD
It allows you to protect and enhance your network through features such as: Traffic Shaper
Two-Factor Authentication
Captive portal
Forward Caching Proxy (transparent) with Blacklist support
Virtual Private Network (site to site & road warrior)
High Availability & Hardware Failover
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Build-in reporting and monitoring tools including RRD Graphs
Netflow Export & Analysis
Support for plugins
DNS Server & DNS Forwarder
DHCP Server and Relay
Dynamic DNS
Encrypted configuration backup to Google Drive
Stateful inspection firewall
Granular control over state table
802.1Q VLAN support
and more..
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