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Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to OpnSense – Installation – Part 1
Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to OpnSense – Installation – Part 1
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OpnSense is an opensource, Enterprise grade firewall with multiple advanced features. In this video we deploy a virtual OpnSense firewall and prepare for advanced configuration. Subsequent episodes will cover vLANs, VPNs, High Availability and much more…
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Hi Jim. Don't want to criticise, I find your video's great. Installing OPNSense behind the Sophos XG – is this for demonstration purposes or is there a benefit?
Hey why don't you try something that stumps many, get an external ATA to not have it registration blocked by that firewall. Show us how to make that work because it often easy on the cheap store bought routers but on this forums are full of opinions on how to do it all different ways that typically lack any real details.
So I share a house with internet and I cannot have my own separate internet but want to have my own network and home lab setup. So you mentioned setting up this firewall behind your Sophos. So wanted to ask, currently I have my pfsense/opnsense box's WAN port plugged into a DMZ'ed port on the house router and I have assigned it a static IP. Then the LAN is on a different IP range for all my devices behind the firewall. Does this sound OK??? Is there any setting I need to use in either pfsense or opnsense to use this sort of setup??? Thanks for your videos!
Could you add to the list wireguard setup on OPNsense working along with dual wan failover please? Thanks
Hopefully, you'll cover access points and bridging the Wan and Lan so they reside on the same IP with each other, as you might see from a store bought router. This is where I made mistakes when I setup 3 years ago. Wifi starts on 192.168.3.x and Lan is on 192.168.1.x. Also maybe some coverage on AP setups too, I got some tp-link wifi units and I've had some awful speeds through wifi as well as dropped connections.
I really liked your explanation on attaching the nic, I also had trouble with this and ended up running from the built-in nic. I'm also excited to see your homelab firewall configuration!
Not gonna lie, your videos are amazing.
Thank you James, great job as always.
The timing for this video couldn't have been better for me. Today was setup day for my new home network. I found this a really easy to follow and clear guide that I've followed and successfully have OPNsense running via proxmox on my new router! Can't wait for the next parts!
Thank you Jim for the great content! Really looking forward to this series on opnsense.. perfect timing! 😉
I have Pfsense, but there are some weird issues with it, like it doesn't store configurations correctly, when you load them in a new instance you can run into very weird issues, also i saw there is a very nice zerotier plugin by which you can easily make a site to site connections, somethingPFsense completely gnores. The giu with the traffic looks much more responsive too, in pfsense its slow and looks dated. When i get my 100Gbit switch next week, i will use your tutorial and get some experience with OPnsense,,who knows maybe i make a switch from Pfsense, thanks for showing.
Don’t use UFS !UFS is a piece of crap and gets corrupted all the time. I know it’s a virtualized install and in theory you should have backups! But still!
I've been using pfsense as a vm on hyperv for over 3 yrs now and have never had any major issues. When using a virtual router/firewall on any hypervisor I recommend using 10gig nics, when adding Acl's, vlans to the virtual adapters the vm bus has to work harder, plus if you're enabling vlans, ID/IPS and all the other nice features of the firewall 10gig nics are better.
For the virtualized NICs it's recommended to set Multiqueue to 8 🙂
By any chance what’s the command to see what port is in use to see which is wan and lan?
24:14 You left the option Override DNS on. Which DNS resolvers will do the job then? 😊
Hi Jim, great timing to present an Opnsense series now as I was about to try to install Sophos XG on my Proxmox machine, but a little bit scared about all the configuration steps 🤔. I have a Mini-PC with 2 NICs, 1Gbit->vmbr0->ip to access Proxmox, 2,5Gbit->vmbr1->VMs + LXCs. I want to use the 1Gbit port as WAN , the 2,5Gbit port as LAN, while maintaining in Opnsense the DHCP subnet actually provided by my router as I have a bunge of static IPs allocated right now (and obviously deactivating the router DHCP afterwards). Do you think that‘s anyhow feasible? Thanks for your great videos. It‘s a pleasure to listen to your calm voice, especially for a non-native English speaker. Greetings from tiny Luxembourg 🇱🇺.
I tried making a switch to OPN from PF but i found i was only getting 650mbps of my 1gbit connection, reinstalled PF and i was back to 930mbps… i just couldn't work out was was going on, was a bit gutted 🙁 Im in the UK and Openreach use PPPoE for their FTTP fibre, i think it could have been something to do with that and freeBSD utilising only 1 cpu core for PPPoE.. not sure
Alternatives to Sophos are always interesting 👍
Looking forward to this!