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Published inJun 2022
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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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Updating firmware

Once we have successfully installed OPNsense, we can explore it using either the CLI or WebGUI. Let's start with WebGUI to see the update process and how to install some plugins using it.

When we log in for the first time in WebGUI, the first screen that appears is the configuration wizard, which will help you to do the first configurations in your OPNsense. Through a next-next-finish process, you can configure the hostname, DNS servers, and the Resolver, Timezone, WAN, and LAN interfaces, for example. I will not explore the wizard in this book, because the goal here is to explore each configuration in detail and the wizard will not help us with that. But, if you are curious about the configuration wizard, you can explore it by accessing the System | Wizard menu.

Important Note

If you want to test the Configuration Wizard, I recommend you take a VM snapshot beforehand, so that if something gets broken you can easily fix it.

Checking for system updates...

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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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