The last update from a few weeks ago found Julia in the hospital. She ended up staying for a week for observation. During that time, the doctors closely monitored her blood pressure, fetal heartbeat, and did lab work to see if there was any evidence of preeclampsia or other bad news. Fortunately, Julia’s health was… Continue reading From the Valley to the Mountain
Setting up a PKI
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
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
Adventures in Networking, Part 5: Splunking
When I finished part 4, I had a zone-based firewall set up with rules for traffic between each zone. Since I started with a locked-down configuration, how did I know what was getting blocked, especially those services that may run in the background without any user intervention? I solved this, and many other problems, by… Continue reading Adventures in Networking, Part 5: Splunking
Adventures in Networking, Part 4: Zone Defense
After part 3, I had a fully-functioning, switched network. So then why would I want to change that? Ah, because if it ain’t broke, you aren’t doing it right. As I stated before, ACL-based firewalls are limited, defining only inbound, outbound, and local (to the router) rules on each interface. I didn’t like that limitation,… Continue reading Adventures in Networking, Part 4: Zone Defense
Adventures in Networking, Part 3: Switch It Up
When I ended part 2, I had a functioning router with a WAN interface and two subnets. But unless you only have a couple of clients to connect to the router, how are you going to turn that one interface into many? Hubs are stupid and broadcast everything. A switch is better because it limits… Continue reading Adventures in Networking, Part 3: Switch It Up