Subj : Re: SSH...
To   : Bucko
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Tue Oct 04 2022 05:17 pm

  Re: Re: SSH...
  By: Bucko to claw on Mon Oct 03 2022 17:49:19

 Bu> On 02 Oct 2022, claw said the following...


 cl>> Another thing I do is run PFSense with PFBlockerNG it has some nice auto update IP blocking filters and also allows
 cl>> blocking of countries and so on.  I believe many of the bots get block by that before they ever reach the BBS.
 cl>> Its free and easy to use.  

LOVE PFSENSE, but had no end of issues with blockerNG, i ended up just running an iptables script on the box running my bbs 
which uses the GEOIP module and that works well.. I probbaly didnt setup pfblockerNG right but it was always complaining that it didnt haave enough memory to put all the rules LOL

 Bu> I am gonna have to look at pfSense, been hearing a lot of good things about it.. I run a Ubiquiti Dream Router, and have
 Bu> about 7 countries blocked currently, and it helped at first, now it's just getting pitiful, I had to block South Korea (I
 Bu> have a friend who lives there so I had to ask him for his IP address so I could whitelist it).. I am gonna check it out
 Bu> though.. Might helps.. 

pfsense is great. I have mine on a small 1U dell r210. modem in one port, managed switch out the other. runs 5 vlans across 2 switches with no issues at all. only has 2 gig of ram and is using 15% if that.

up until the hurricane, it hadnt been off in over 6 months.

cpu specs: 
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
AES-NI CPU Crypto: No
QAT Crypto: No

Load average 0.05, 0.12, 0.08

in the loaded rack all the temps are around 42C on the dies.

btw, current bandwidth usage is about 500 meg/s out the modem and handles the gigabit fiber connection with ease :D

regards
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