Firewall: Basic protection of our WAN interface First a little general setup of the firewall set firewall log-martians enable set firewall ip-src-route disable set firewall all-ping enable I am still following my setup of part 1, so our outside WAN interface is ETH0. We want to drop all traffic comming in through this interface except […]
Month: September 2016
Edgerouter Security, Part3
Use SSH certificate for authentication instead of passwords Just using a username and a password for accessing the router makes me a little nervous. With only this peace of information anyone can log into the router at any time. This is why i have a private key in my Putty and propagate my public key to the […]
Edgerouter Security, Part2
Resetting and connecting to the edgerouter. Factory reset edgerouter (press and hold resetbutton while applying power. Keep pressed for 10 sec. Set IP on your PC to 192.168.1.2/24 Connect to 192.168.1.1 via SSH with username “ubnt” and password “ubnt” Create a new login user The first security step is to create your own new user […]
Edgerouter Security, Part1
Edgerouter – Nice but scary!!! I just bought the Ubiquiti Edgerouter PoE and have been playing with it for some time. It’s a fantastic product with endless possibilities. But after playing around with the product, I realized that it must be a hackers heaven. The ultimate box to conquer in your network. It’s a perfect hiding […]