OPNsense - NathanStMarie/tech-journal GitHub Wiki

This page serves a description of the OPNSense configuration completed in Lab 1.

To me, the OPNsense console was fairly intuitive, and can be understood through using it.

Upon reaching the OPNsense console, you are met with the options to:

  1. Logout
  2. Assign Interfaces
  3. Set interface IP address
  4. Reset the root password
  5. Reset to factory defaults
  6. Power off system
  7. Reboot system
  8. Ping host
  9. Shell
  10. pfTop
  11. Firewall log
  12. Reload all services
  13. Update from console
  14. Restore a backup

First, we had to assign the interfaces to the appropriate network, and configure their IP addresses. This was done by selecting option 1, 'Assign Interfaces', and then naming the WAN interface to em0 and the LAN interface to em1.

em0, the WAN interface, was given an IP of 10.0.17.157 (by selecting option 2), since that was the IP assigned to me in the Network Assignments spreadsheet. We used a 24-bit subnet mask. We also used HTTPs for the GUI rather than HTTP.

em1, the LAN interface, was given an IP of 10.0.5.2 (again, by selecting option 2), which was the same for every other student in the lab.