OPNSense Firewall Rules Explained

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  @HannesDi · 5 years ago

  99% percent of the videos out there claim to get you started with OPNsense, but what I saw there was just bullshit about downloading and installing, sometimes then they showed the interface but stop at the relevant parts.... &quot;How to use the firewall&quot;. This is where your video is gold because it finally explains useful things!<br><br>Thanks for this short but great explanatory video

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  @weazel1024 · 4 years ago

  Hands down the best video concerning opnsense rules if found until now. Thank you very much.

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  @TimmyNET · 4 years ago

  I forget about your channel. &nbsp;You can go watch someone else with a 5 minute video but you will spend 3 hrs filling the gaps left out. &nbsp;Your video instructions are clear and direct. &nbsp;Thank you.

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  @rent2ownnz · 4 years ago

  This is by far the best working run through on how the interfaces relate to one another and I learnt some great tricks with moving the rules around as well. Great stuff. I was almost there but since you easily explained how the data is matched to a a top down approach, it makes logical sense and I &nbsp;imagine it as if there was &nbsp;water pouring in from the tip rule and the different filters the data out like different water filters take out the different minerals ... and then you are left with the pure water (DATA) that can freely flow into the system.<br><br>This really helped me diagnose and also get both my NORD VPN rules ordered correctly and my Wire guard up and running as well.... Just understanding that the Lan Interface has the highest hierarchy in the system just below the WAN interface.... lets me look at the LAN interface rules first, then replicated them into each Vlan Subnet &nbsp;that I had created for IoS, Guest, MainLan and VPN Test Vlan. I had all of the RFC1918 Blocking sorted, but now have a solid understanding on where it needs to be in the rule list. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this in an easy to understand and almost working lab style! FANTASTIC JOB!

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  @Syrma79 · 3 years ago

  I rarely, if ever comment or like a video, but this is one of the best I have seen, and I&apos;m only half way through. Really easy to understand, explained well, and more importantly, shown what the changes do. As others have said, other videos make assumptions on knowledge levels. Great work

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  @SonicNinja6600 · 2 years ago

  Simple to understand and straight to the point. Thanks for the video.

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  @esthes · 10 months ago

  Out of the dozens of tutorials on opnsense firewall, this is the only one that explains how and why the rules work, instead of just showing where the click with no context. &nbsp;Thank you.

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  @paulmedcalf8149 · 1 year ago

  Hands Down the best description for Firewall rules for OPNsense! Thankyou!

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  @xtechoracle · 1 year ago

  After spending over five days trying to understand how the rules work, you are my life saver. Thank you so much for this content. 💟

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  @Serenuss · 2 years ago

  This is brilliant, thank you for this. Best opnsense video I&apos;ve seen so far on firewall rules.

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  @exponentmantissa5598 · 4 months ago

  I really liked this video. Fantastic primer for someone new to Opnsense rules.

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  @David-XCsoaring · 9 months ago

  Wow, I am so pleased I found your video. This is such a great resource for understanding the basics. Thanks for making it.