This post will be edited over time, just recently achieved a level of functionality that might bear sharing. Goal: A HomeLab setup that protects itself This HomeLab has at its core an OPNSense Router, switch infrastructure, several VMs, a few Docker environments, and specifically for this version of this post: with cron updating near all…
Overview The quintessential home lab. A place you can test, explore, and sharpen your skillset as an IT Guru or even just a beginner. We will cover some of the details, services, and roll out that might help you create your own Homelab. For starters, this is not going to be a comprehensive how-to. I…
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:…
Let’s say you wanted to forward a port to another host that has an external IP (public facing like yours), this is how you would do that: sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp –dport $port -j LOG –log-prefix=”PreRouting $port..:” sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp –dport $port…
Re-edit: the IPSet wasn’t working the way it should’ve on further inspection, I’ve fixed that, plus, some of my rules were hastily copied and I’ve fixed that too. Edit: I had the order of this incorrect in the beginning, for that I appologize, it is correct now. If you don’t have your IPSet list setup,…
