Fast and easy way to protect your home and/or small office network with OPNsense

[elektroinside]

Modify the logs verbosity level for Unbound in Services: Unbound DNS: Advanced (from 1 to higher), then 'apply'. Find the level which is best for you. It will log queries beginning with level 2.

[you]

Hi elektroinside,

thanks for this initiative. This is all mega helpful for a beginner like me ! Especially the AdGuard howto is something I highly appreciate ;)


Thanks also to all contributor in this thread.

Cheers

[elektroinside]

You're welcome, happy to help :)
Hope this guide will help you protect your network. In order to do achieve this, don't forget that IDS requires patience at the beginning, especially the first hours/days. Don't get frustrated if stuff are blocked, you just have to discover which rules you need and which you do not. You'll never know if you don't try them all, right? :)

[jenmonk]

I do see lot of menu changes in OPNsense 18.1.5. appreciate if you could update for 18 version

[elektroinside]

Indeed, I will update the post soon :)

[jenmonk]

@elektroinside
I was able to figure out the menus.I had my qotom mini pc collecting dust over 6 months. I was able to install opnsense but had trouble configuring IDS/IPS(me to blame).  I followed your tutorial and very happy with the result.  A ton of thanks.

[elektroinside]

Very happy to hear it helped.
You're welcome!

[jenmonk]

Appreciate if you could add config steps for
transparent Caching Proxy
clamav
rspamd
of course If it is not too much work

[elektroinside]

I would, but I try to avoid the use of proxies. My reasons are maintenance & performance related. I managed to do so for many years now, and I'm kinda outdated with regards to OPNsense & its proxy implementation. I tried it not to die stupid, it works, but I'm no expert, hence I cannot write any more helpful tutorial than the one already existing in the manual :)

[jenmonk]

no worries. I am happy with the current setup.

[jenmonk]

I have  ATT router acting as just modem --> wan on opnsense --> lan of opnsense to Asus wifi router. when I put my att modem and opnsense in bridge mode, I can't connect to the internet. any help?

[jenmonk]

Never mind. Restarting in sequence resolved the issue. shutdown all. restart modem, opnsense and wifi router.
Thanks

[elektroinside]

Better not hijack this thread with unrelated issues, and open a new topic if this is still an ongoing issue. If not, I'm glad you worked it out :)

[jenmonk]

I understand and sorry about it

[elektroinside]

Don't worry :)