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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 …

How to Configure the WireGuard VPN Server in OPNsense

Dustin Casto
March 13, 2020
(Updated: June 11, 2022)
Routers
Opnsense ,VPN ,Wire guard

WireGuard is a modern designed VPN that uses the latest cryptography for stronger security, is very lightweight, and is relatively easy to set up once …

How to Configure DNS over TLS (DoT) Using Unbound DNS in OPNsense

Dustin Casto
April 13, 2021
(Updated: May 19, 2022)
Routers
DNS ,Opnsense ,Cloud flare

Previously, I wrote about how to configure DNS over HTTPS using DNSCrypt-Proxy. Since Unbound DNS in OPNsense does not support DNS over HTTPS (DoH) …

How to Configure IPv6 in Your Home Network with ISP such as Comcast Xfinity

Dustin Casto
August 17, 2019
(Updated: May 16, 2022)
Routers ,Firewalls
Opnsense ,Ipv6

IPv6 was drafted in the mid-1990s when it was realized that IPv4 addresses would quickly be exhausted due to the explosive growth of the Internet. …

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 …