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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: OXL-Rath on November 01, 2025, 01:02:20 PM

Title: Simulate Traffic over OPNsense Firewalls (Troubleshooting/CICD/IaC)
Post by: OXL-Rath on November 01, 2025, 01:02:20 PM
Greetings - I hope you are having a nice day (:

Just wanted to post about a tool I created for simulating network-traffic across firewalls.

This can be useful for:

* Troubleshooting problems with complex rulesets
* Troubleshooting issues where you do not control the source
* Analysing problems without access to the firewall (the admin/user only needs to send you the config-backup & network-export)
* Automating regression tests (CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code)
* More

Links:

* Documentation (https://ftf.oxl.app/)
* GitHub: O-X-L/firewall-testing-framework (https://github.com/O-X-L/firewall-testing-framework) (and soon Codeberg..)
* PyPI: pip install firewall-test (https://pypi.org/project/firewall-test/)

BTW: It also works for Linux-Netfilter (IPTables/NFTables)

I would be happy to get some feedback - and feel free to contribute to the project :D :+1:

(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/O-X-L/firewall-testing-framework/refs/heads/latest/docs/source/_static/img/opnsense.gif)

Edit: Adding Preview-GIF