Newbie Tip: OPNsense, Unbound, Suricata, Pi-Hole and Perplexity.ai

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A tip for newbies.  I used Perplexity.ai to answer a bunch of questions to setup and test the following OPNsense configuration. 

Perplexity is not always correct and you may have to restructure your question(s), but it can in many cases point you in the right direction, quickly locate the right menu option and the appropriate documentation pages.

Hope this tip might be of help to someone.  It helped me expedite the learning process in a timely fashion including learning I could use most of my existing Pi-Hole lists in OPNsense's Unbound blocking lists.  I have been able to eliminate my Pi-Hole server including redirecting all other DNS server requests through the block lists.

Was able to pen test the WAN interface and load test - saturate WAN/LAN and LAN/LAN Bridge connections with bi-directional/full-duplex iperf3 traffic to test the scalability and resource consumption of the configuration.