Secure Your OPNSense Router With CrowdSec Multi-Server Setup

This post will be edited over time, please feel free to come back and check for new content. Last edit: 11-25-2024 Goal: A HomeLab setup that protects itself This example HomeLab has at its core an OPNSense Router, smart switches with subnet zones, several VMs, a few Docker environments, and specifically for this version of…

Scientific Linux 7.1 + ELK + Rivers

Are you interested in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Rivers (JDBC+MySQL)? Then this ELK guide is for you. We are building this with Scientific Linux 7.1 and the latest versions of each available at the moment. I sourced information on how to do this from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7 http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/sec-Using_Firewalls.html https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc Install SL 7.1 Find your local mirror:…

TWC Time Warner Cable and their MTU

Edit: Next day, it was stalled again, either my MTU isn’t actually low enough, or, after talking to a huge letter certified Cisco Engineer buddy at the $DayJob, it might be a memory leak in my eBay purchased D-Link device. Going to try to get a better firmware for it after I go ahead and…