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 I managed to do so for many years now, and I'm kinda outdated with regards to OPNsense & its proxy implementation.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