Forum: Thunder-Line BBS

Firewalls

From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to All on Friday, December 19, 2025 07:38:11

I keep going back and forth between a Synology router and OpenWRT
running on a Linksys router. Synology's router OS is pretty slick - it's
got their own DDNS, a nice SSL VPN, certificate management and a
stateful firewall - all things I feel like I'm missing on Open WRT.

I finally got Wireguard working on OpenWRT, so that's resolved. I fired
up the Synology, just to see about the firewall, and ran it for the
better part of the afternoon. It pulled up 400 medium-level alerts, then looking into them, most of them were either outbound connects to BBSes
using DDNS services, people telnetting in from DDNS IPs, and one script
kiddie trying to log into a wordpress URL (I'm not running wordpress)

I think I'll go back to OpenWRT. I'm planning on segmenting my network,
it'll be all OpenVPN at that time and should be easier. I want to make
a media VLAN for my TVs, a guest/IOT VLAN, a management/client
VLAN for general desktop/laptop/phone/printer use, and a VLAN for my
homelab.

I'll need to wait until I have an afternoon off work and an empty house
- the moans and wailing I hear from the kids when the wifi is down is
VERY distracting.

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