vulnix
pfSense
vulnix | pfSense | |
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4 | 186 | |
402 | 4,630 | |
5.5% | 0.7% | |
1.2 | 9.5 | |
about 1 month ago | 9 days ago | |
Python | PHP | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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vulnix
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Is NixOS a thing?
it is very easy to scan your entire dependency tree for known vulnerabilities for Nix, all the way up to a whole OS
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What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner.
For security there are these scanners:
https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix
https://github.com/andir/nix-vulnerability-scanner
I also run all services in docker and my network uses VLANs behind an OPNSense firewall. I use Wireguard as a pinch point into my network to access most services. So I'm not too worried about the security aspect.
Upgrading on Nix is pretty easy - just bump your lock file and it will get the latest packages, assuming you are on the unstable channel. But unstable does break on occasion. You an also use the latest stable release of Nix and selectively choose unstable packages, which is probably the way to go. I rarely need to fix anything - it's pretty stable. It only starts eating time when I want to add or upgrade some element to the system, but I always make sure to never do any action that isn't captured in Nix config and backed up, so that I don't have to come back and figure out what exactly I did or how something works again. It's been fine. Nix has a pretty steep learning curve, but considering its power, I think it's absolutely worth it.
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Is there an easy way to see changes made by `nixos-rebuild switch`?
Along with the results of the diff the comment also provides the results of running vulnix
- vulnix: Vulnerability (CVE) Scanner for Nix/NixOS
pfSense
- Open source software to limit/throttle network speed by program or process?
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Router for a 1.5Gbps connection
One option is Firewalla Gold Plus, or you could buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself.
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Have the IT skills you've learnt applied to life outside of work?
Download and install pfsense as a virtual machine or partition: https://www.pfsense.org Configure it with the rules you want: https://youtu.be/VAGFGppSt74 Play with it, but be careful because it will block all traffic unless you check everything properly.
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Looking for Recommendations
Another option is Firewalla, or buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself. Two similar concepts, with the cost being either money or your DIY time. A lot of Firewalla users say that it's much easier for home use than pfSense/OPNsense, so you might find it worthwhile to spend a little more on it upfront and have to tinker less.
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VPN for network filtering
If you want firewall, I think you can use https://www.pfsense.org/ or https://opnsense.org/ , maybe running on an old PC or a Raspberry Pi. Not sure.
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Looking for Guidance and Advice
I've recently started using OPNsense. It's similar to pfSense, but seems to be considered a little more user-friendly.
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Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread. Have you a tech question or want to discuss tech?
For most router issues, I recommend people always put them in to dumb bridge mode and put a proper firewall like pfsense or opnsense as your gateway.
- TotalPlay intercepta las peticiones de DNS y las suplanta.
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Another ATT outage 5/15
I have found that my historical average packet loss is about 0.02%. Something distinctly changed around 4/20 of this year, and now the average packet loss has gone up to 0.05% with spikes even higher, associated with periods of elevated ping times. It rarely did that before. Typically the IPv6 stack has more problems than v4 (especially an incident of packet loss on 4/28), and neither has been trouble-free since I started service in early 2020. My data comes from a pfSense installation.
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Best OS To Use To Run Off Different IP addresses?
I have done this using the Pfsense
What are some alternatives?
opencve - CVE Alerting Platform
crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
nix-alien - Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS
openwrt - Linux distribution for embedded devices
awesome-selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
nix.dev - Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.
Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
pfsense-api - The missing REST API package for pfSense
expbox - Vulnerability Exploitation Code Collection Repository
fwknop - Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking