Having gotten my home network and logging to a point where I wanted it, my next project was going to be Chef. Life intervened before I got too much involved with Chef, but now that things are approaching a sense of normalcy, I’m trying to pick up where I left off. My ultimate goal is… Continue reading Replacing Chef’s self-signed certificates
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Bonjour!: mDNS and iTunes Home Sharing on EdgeOS
Ever since I’ve set up my home network, Home Sharing hasn’t worked between our Apple TV and my desktop computer. It’s been a minor annoyance that I really didn’t look into before now, but I had some time yesterday to troubleshoot it and get it working just in time to watch Little Women, which Julia… Continue reading Bonjour!: mDNS and iTunes Home Sharing on EdgeOS
Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
After a conversation at work about how easy it is to use Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication, I decided that installing Google Authenticator on my CentOS server would be my next project. After all, I had recently automated download of website log files, and I needed to find the next to-do at home. Installing Google… Continue reading Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
Log File Automation
When I set up Splunk reporting for my website, it was a purely manual process, and I left for the future the goal of pulling the logs automatically. Since then, that’s exactly what I’ve done, so now it runs completely automatically. Below is how.
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
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