Re: Re: SSH ISSUES
By: Vk3jed to Daryl Stout on Wed Jul 05 2017 08:37:00

I had to end up DISABLING it...because I'm going to need the port
for it for a non-BBS application.

You seem to manage to choose brain dead routers. There is NO excuse for a new router these days not to offer a decent number of port forwards. I don't know the limits of mine, but I am forwarding a LOT more than 20 ports on IPv4. 30-40 alone for ham radio applications. The BBSs don't need port forwarding, because they're using tunneled public IPv4 addresses (and native IPv6).

afaik I can forward as many ports as I want to, and I believe I have a fairly crappy router (sagecomm fast 4320) I mean the router looks very smart software wise.. has many many options (some I beleive I will never even learn to operate)

But still seems kinda shotty.. good nat though.

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Re: SSH ISSUES
By: Daryl Stout to DEEPTHAW on Mon Jul 03 2017 10:35 pm

I had to end up DISABLING it...because I'm going to need the port for
it for a non-BBS application.

Move it to a different port instead? SSH support is one of the sweetest parts of Synchronet! Also, if you use a different port for both SSH and telnet, you will have a much higher chance of getting people looking for your BBS, and not some IOT worm bs, or an nmap scan with default ports enabled, or or or...

...darkwing!

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Re: Re: SSH ISSUES
By: Vk3jed to Daryl Stout on Wed Jul 05 2017 08:37 am

I still think the old Linksys running DD-WRT is the best bet. Love that firmware.

Just picked up a WRT1200AC with the intention of using it purely as a router with no wifi, and it runs like a champ with OpenWRT. Reminds me of the power/customization that DD-WRT used to offer, just with updated hardware. I needed the new router so I could move my wifi access point (apple airport extreme) to a position where it would be logged by the span port on my switch. SecurityOnion is pretty sweet if you haven't checked it out. Full pcap and ids for free! =)

...darkwing!

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Darkwing wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Just picked up a WRT1200AC with the intention of using it purely as
a router with no wifi, and it runs like a champ with OpenWRT. Reminds
me of the power/customization that DD-WRT used to offer, just with
updated hardware. I needed the new router so I could move my wifi
access point (apple airport extreme) to a position where it would be logged by the span port on my switch. SecurityOnion is pretty sweet if
you haven't checked it out. Full pcap and ids for free! =)

Nice. It's definitely worth looking into the alternative firmware out there. More features for free. :)


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I still think the old Linksys running DD-WRT is the best bet. Love that

firmware.

I liked that firmware, too, when I had a Links back in the day. Now I
am really enjoying my Sonic wall :)
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Robert Wolfe wrote to VK3JED <=-

I still think the old Linksys running DD-WRT is the best bet. Love that

firmware.

I liked that firmware, too, when I had a Links back in the day. Now I
am really enjoying my Sonic wall :)

I've used it on a couple of different routers. Very versatile. Unfortunately, the last DD-WRT router I had died last year with a hardware fault. :( In addition to using it as a regular router, I had also used various other modes from access point (no Internet) to client bridge, enabling wired access to a wireless network. There is an unsecured network near here (been around at least 4 years) that I used the client bridge on when we first moved here. It took over a week to get Internet sorted (most of the time trying to find a DSL modem capable of handling the long line), and this network was helpful to at least keep email flowing.

Had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago when we switched to the new high speed network. This time, it was a screwup by the network tech (didn't check the documentation was accurate) that caused the issue, but this time around, I had enough 3G/4G devices and access to fill the gap, and we didn't need to resort to open wifi. :)


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