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Home Router/Firewall using OPNsense

Date and Time

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

Online at Jitsi

Presenters

Shankar Viswanathan , AMD Semiconductor - shankar.viswan gmail com

Summary

Shankar demonstrates OPNsense running virtualized inside the Proxmox Virtual Environment

Abstract

In this talk, Shankar will discuss his pandemic-induced home network upgrade. He will explain the choice of OPNsense as his router OS and the hardware to run it. He will give a demo of OPNsense running in a virtualized environment under Proxmox-VE.

Bio

Shankar Viswanathan is the lead performance architect for AMD's Strategic Silicon products. He has worked on the design and verification of several generations of AMD processors. Most recently, he was on the design team for the SoCs that power game consoles such as the PlayStation5 and the Steam Deck. His general interests like at the intersection of performance and security in hardware platforms.

Meeting Notes

Attachments

  1. OPNsense - an open source, FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform
  2. Proxmox Virtual Environment


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