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How to Set Up a Transparent Filtering Bridge on OPNsense 26.1

Many users have ISP supplied routers or their own gateway/router devices that they must use or prefer to use yet want to add greater security to their …

How to Set Up a Transparent Filtering Bridge on OPNsense 24.7

Dustin Casto
March 30, 2025
(Updated: May 12, 2026)
Firewalls
OPNsense

Many users have ISP supplied routers or their own gateway/router devices that they must use or prefer to use yet want to add greater security to their …

Introducing Open Source Security: Enterprise-Grade Security Technologies for Home Networks

Improve Your Home Network Security For many home users, the main router used on the network is provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider). The …

A Detailed Comparison between OPNsense 23.1 and pfSense CE 2.6

Over the last several years I have seen many users who are deciding to use OPNsense or pfSense as their home network router software of choice or they …

How to Enable Multi-Factor Authentication in OPNsense

Enabling multi-factor authentication for your accounts is a good security practice to follow and the account used to access the OPNsense web interface …

Write Better Firewall Rules in OPNsense using Aliases

Dustin Casto
May 28, 2021
(Updated: May 10, 2022)
Firewalls
OPNsense

When you first learned to write firewall rules in OPNsense, you may have simply used the pre-defined aliases for the network interfaces/ports and IP …