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Quickstart guide

NethSecurity can be installed on virtual machines or x86 hardware.

Hardware requirements

Minimum requirements:

  • 2 ethernet network cards
  • 1 GB of RAM
  • 1 GB of disk

Download

See the download page inside manual.

Install

See the install page inside manual.

Access

See the access page inside manual.

Console setup

The image ships the /usr/sbin/setup helper for basic console-first configuration.

The command uses a whiptail interface to:

  • switch the console keyboard between it and the default us
  • assign physical network cards to lan and wan
  • configure lan IPv4/CIDR
  • configure wan as dhcp or static

LuCI

The following sections/options should not be changed from the web interface:

  • Flashstart firewall rules
  • OpenVPN instances starting with ns_ prefix
  • XFRM network interfaces
  • apk configuration
  • Adblock configuration