Setting up a PPTP tunnel to a VPN provider. My goal in this blogentry is to set up a permanent open PPTP tunnel to a VPN provider. I am going to set up a couple of internal clients in my network to always be tunneled through this provider. The first step set up a basic tunnel […]
Author: Alex Jensen
IPv6 Certification
I just spend a day refreshing my knowledge about bind and combining it with some new IPv6 information 🙂 I hope everyone will move in this direction! The internet needs people to move… I encourage all of you to take this certification. It’s fun 🙂
Edgerouter, IPv6
Adding IPv6 to the Edgerouter My goal was to set up IPv6 on my Edgerouter with tunnelbroker.net because my ISP doesn’t support IPv6. There are a lot of nice instructions on the internet how to get a /64 network routed into one Edgerouter interface. But I found very little information on getting several /64 networks to […]
Edgerouter Security, Part5
OpenVPN Now i want to setup an OpenVPN server on my Edgerouter. I am feeling pretty nervous about just securing this with a username and password. I want to be able to connect to my network from a PC I don’t trust 100%. The way to do this is by using a combination of a […]
Edgerouter Security, Part4
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 […]
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 […]