Since setting up my home network, I’ve been playing around with pieces of it. Today, when I was logging into the web interface of my EdgeLite Router, I noticed that dreaded red X through the https in Chrome, because Chrome didn’t trust the default self-signed certificate that came with the router. Why not replace that… Continue reading Setting up a PKI
Month: August 2014
Windows Woes
I’m not much of a fan of Windows, but a couple of applications that I use a lot (Quicken and Adobe Lightroom, for example) don’t run on Linux. Also, gaming on Windows is still much easier than gaming on Linux. As a result, I use Window 7 Ultimate as my main computer. Yesterday, when I… Continue reading Windows Woes
When Joy Isn’t
It was the doctor visit that Julia and I had both been looking forward to, that 20 week ultrasound that was going to tell us what we were going to have: two boys, two girls, or one of each (the most probable selection and my pick). No sooner had we learned that we were going… Continue reading When Joy Isn’t
Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts
As part of my home network setup, I talked a bit about how I set up Splunk and used it for metrics on firewall performance. Splunk is an incredibly powerful tool and can be used for much, much more than that. This weekend I pretty easily set up a cool new dashboard to monitor brute-force… Continue reading Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts
Adventures in Networking: Setting Up a Home Network with EdgeOS
As promised, the summary of everything I’ve done to date. I’m still messing with IPv6, and I found my VLAN settings were all messed up, so expect some more updates on this topic. So far, though, here’s what I have, from start to finish: Adventures in Networking, Part 1: Intro Adventures in Networking, Part 2:… Continue reading Adventures in Networking: Setting Up a Home Network with EdgeOS
Adventures in Networking, Part 6: IPv6
This is finally the end of my series on setting up my EdgeRouter and all the fun I had with it. This part was the hardest part, but it was also quite the learning experience: getting IPv6 up an running on my router. It took a lot of work, muddling around with configs, and reading… Continue reading Adventures in Networking, Part 6: IPv6