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Published inJun 2022
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ISBN-139781801816878
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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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In this chapter, you have learned about Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic shaping basics, how to create pipes, queues, and rules in the OPNsense webGUI, and how to test them. Now you can design a traffic shaping policy based on the network requirements and create rules to apply it using OPNsense features. In the next chapter, we will begin our exploration of the VPN world.

In this chapter, we learned about IPsec and OpenVPN, the pros and cons of each one, how to employ IPsec and OpenVPN to connect remote networks using a site-to-site approach, and how to use OpenVPN to connect remote users. We have explored the diagnostics tools OPNsense provides and some common issues you can face while using them. In the next chapter, we will learn about OPNsense's multi-WAN capabilities.

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Published in: Jun 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801816878

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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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