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Networking

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banIP - OpenWRT IP List Blocker

So I host a HoneyPot to test whether how many attacks I get per day and what security measures are able to block it. And I started with Snort3 in IDS mode which allowed to detect malicious activity. After I switched to IPS, I noticed that while miscellaneous attacks had

Running SSH on Port 22 vs 2222

So I host a SSH server Honeypot on my public IP and I thought to myself - How big a difference is running the service on port 22 vs 2222. Is this single step a big enough hurdle to consider it better? And of course, like everything else in my

Pimox7 Networking Issue

So I love Proxmox for my local lab and ever since I used them on my x86_64 nodes, I wanted the same experience for my Raspberry Pis as well. And it turned out that a very famous project by the name of Pimox7 is quite good at it as

pfSense and PPPoE

pfSense is perhaps not a good idea for most home networks Being in IoT industry as a tech guy means that you'll definitely get exposed to networking a lot. And one of the debates that essentially comes up is using OpenWRT vs pfSense. Following is a summary of what most

MTU Issues and Fixes

I've published multiple blogs on my ISP setup and how it has annoyed me in the past. However this one is laser focused on one attribute: MTU. You can read more about it here. Basically it is a balancing act, where optimal performance values are higher MTU, but compatible values

BSNL is a terrible ISP

I moved to Kochi before pandemic, and since then sort of got stuck here. But it has been a great time considering the situation, except for the internet. And I wholly blame BSNL for it. I live on 20th Floor, which means that phone signal is quite weak. To add

Mirai Botnet in 2021

Following my post [https://blog.prakharshukla.com/honeypot-running-off-a-pi-zero-w-d86a03edc63a] about the HoneyPot, and this port is about one of those attacks. While Mirai is no more the hot news, the most number attacks, albeit I hope mostly useless, start from this simple bot. In fact, this is the list of unique

HoneyPot running off a Pi Zero W

This tiny guy has seen more attacks than Spartans!I had a Pi Zero W lying around my stuff. My original aim was to run a camera on top of it, but it seemed that Pi 3 handled the video processing much better than this tiny guy, so it was