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When: December 21, 2022 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A)<br>
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Topic: Home Router/Firewall using OPNsense<br>
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Speaker: Shankar Viswanathan<br>
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Location: Online: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meet.jit.si/blu.org">https://meet.jit.si/blu.org</a><br>
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Live stream: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/otx218o8RmI">https://youtu.be/otx218o8RmI</a><br>
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Summary:<br>
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Shankar demonstrates OPNsense running virtualized inside the Proxmox
Virtual Environment<br>
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Abstract:<br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New
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!important; float: none;">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.</span><br>
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<p>Bio</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">References<br>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a target="_blank"
href="https://opnsense.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px;">OPNsense - an open source, FreeBSD based firewall and
routing platform:</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opnsense.org/">https://opnsense.org/</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proxmox Virtual
Environment: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve">https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve</a><br>
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For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web
site: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a><br>
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