a free firewall for your network

Are you looking for a good firewall solution for your network? At Pplware we have already introduced several here. Today we are going to learn more about the OPNsense distribution.

OPNsense: VPN, IDS/IPS, Firewall and more...
OPNsense is an easy-to-use, open-source, FreeBSD-based firewall and routing platform. The OPNsense distro includes many of the features available in commercial firewalls.
This project started as a fork of pfSense and m0n0wall in 2014, with the first official release taking place in January 2015.

Some key features of OPNsense include:

Firewall: Flexible rules for traffic control with NAT (Network Address Translation) support.
VPN: Support for various VPN technologies such as IPsec and OpenVPN.
IDS/IPS: Integrated intrusion detection and prevention systems.
Load Balancing and Failover: Management of multiple WAN connections.
Web Interface: Easy-to-use graphical interface for configuration and monitoring.

Opnsense is quite popular in enterprise IT environments and among networking enthusiasts due to its flexibility, security, and as an alternative to pfSense, another open-source firewall solution.