<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>RDR-IT - Firewall</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/firewall/</link><description>System administration, virtualization, security and tools for IT professionals.</description><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:31:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/firewall/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>pfSense: Configuring a Client-to-Site VPN with OpenVPN</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/pfsense-configuring-a-client-to-site-vpn-with-openvpn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/pfsense-configuring-a-client-to-site-vpn-with-openvpn/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure a Client-to-Site VPN with PFsense using OpenVPN.
As a reminder, a VPN allows you to connect from a remote location to …</description></item><item><title>pfSense: Setting up a firewall</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/pfsense-setting-up-a-firewall/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/pfsense-setting-up-a-firewall/</guid><description>Presentation In this tutorial, I’m going to explain how to set up a place pfSense which is a distribution that allows you to set up a perimeter firewall.
pfSense is a …</description></item><item><title>OPNsense: Setting up a firewall</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/opnsense-setting-up-a-firewall/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/opnsense-setting-up-a-firewall/</guid><description>Presentation In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up OPNsense, which is a distribution that allows you to set up a perimeter firewall.
OPNsense is a fork based on …</description></item><item><title>Proxmox: create a private network with NAT</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/proxmox-create-a-private-network-with-nat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/proxmox-create-a-private-network-with-nat/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to create a private network on Proxmox and configure NAT so that the LXC/CT containers and virtual computers in this network …</description></item><item><title>UFW: delete a rule</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/ufw-delete-a-rule/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:15:24 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/ufw-delete-a-rule/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to easily delete a firewall rule managed by UFW.
UFW is a command line interface that simplifies the use of iptables rules.</description></item><item><title>Ubuntu: enable the firewall and manage it with UFW</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-enable-the-firewall-and-manage-it-with-ufw/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-enable-the-firewall-and-manage-it-with-ufw/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to activate the firewall on a computer with Ubuntu and manage it with UFW.
UFW for Uncomplicated Firewall is a simplified Netfilter …</description></item><item><title>Crowdsec: protecting Windows servers</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/crowdsec-protecting-windows-servers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/crowdsec-protecting-windows-servers/</guid><description>In a previous tutorial, I explained how toprotect your Linux servers with Crowdsec in order to block “malicious” traffic.
For almost 2 months now, the Crowdsec version …</description></item><item><title>Windows firewall, force domain profile</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-firewall-force-domain-profile/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/windows-firewall-force-domain-profile/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to change the network profile of the firewall on Windows.
It happens that after a restart, the profile of the firewall goes private, …</description></item><item><title>GPO: Managing Windows Firewall Rules</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/gpo-managing-windows-firewall-rules/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/gpo-managing-windows-firewall-rules/</guid><description>Presentation In this tutorial, we will see how to add rules to the Windows Firewall using Group Policy.
For information, the Windows Firewall has been implemented in the …</description></item><item><title>Sophos XG : add a vlan</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-add-a-vlan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-add-a-vlan/</guid><description>In this article, I’ll explain how to declare a vlan on your Sophos XG firewall. Before you create it on the firewall, you must make sure that the port of the switch where …</description></item><item><title>Sophos XG: installation on Hyper-V</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-installation-on-hyper-v/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:00:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-installation-on-hyper-v/</guid><description>In this tutorial, we will have how to install a Sophos XG firewall on a virtual machine with Hyper-V .
For this article, I used the Sophos XG home version which is …</description></item><item><title>Sophos XG: secure emails</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-secure-emails/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 03:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-secure-emails/</guid><description>Introduction In this tutorial, we will see how to secure emails with a Sophos XG firewall.
The firewall offers two modes of operation for filtering emails:
MTA : the …</description></item><item><title>Sophos XG: Web and application filtering</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-web-and-application-filtering/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-web-and-application-filtering/</guid><description>In this tutorial, we’ll see how to put filtering on outgoing streams with a Sophos XG firewall.
I will show you the two filter modules:
Web: which is an internet proxy …</description></item><item><title>SOPHOS XG : clientless access</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-clientless-access/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 05:25:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sophos-xg-clientless-access/</guid><description>Clientless access presentation Client-free access to Sophos XG firewalls allows connections to corporate servers without a VPN client by going directly through an …</description></item><item><title>How to install and configure Windows server routing</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/how-to-install-config-windows-server-routing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/how-to-install-config-windows-server-routing/</guid><description>In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up routing with Windows Server. I regularly use this role in the different labs that I put in place under Hyper-V. I isolate …</description></item><item><title>Stormshield: url filtering https without decryption</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/stormshield-url-filtering-https-without-decryption/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/stormshield-url-filtering-https-without-decryption/</guid><description>In this tutorial, we’ll see how to set up https url filtering (SSL) without needing to decrypt and therefore deploy the stormshield certificate.
This solution does not …</description></item></channel></rss>