Section 2: Securing the Network

This part will dive into firewalling concepts and practices, how to filter packets, how to use network address translation, traffic shaping, setting VPNs, load balance and failover multi-WANs, and will also explore some reposting tools available on OPNsense.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Firewall
• Chapter 6, Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Chapter 7, Traffic Shaping
• Chapter 8, Virtual Private Networking
• Chapter 9, Multi-WAN – Failover and Load Balancing
• Chapter 10, Reporting