12 Ways to Secure Access to OPNsense and Your Home Network
When you have decided as a home user to make the switch from a consumer grade router to a more advanced firewall/router such as OPNsense, you may find …
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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 …
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How to Configure the WireGuard VPN Server in OPNsense
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 …
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How to Configure DNS over TLS (DoT) Using Unbound DNS in OPNsense
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) …
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How to Configure IPv6 in Your Home Network with ISP such as Comcast Xfinity
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. …
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Write Better Firewall Rules in OPNsense using Aliases
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 …
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How to Configure Dynamic DNS in OPNsense
If you have any software/services hosted on your home network that you wish to access remotely, you may have encountered a situation in which your …
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Use Static Routing to Second OPNsense Router with NAT Disabled for a Homelab
Originally I wanted to write about how to use a second OPNsense router two different ways: with NAT and without NAT. After digging into it further, I …
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