Driving pppd with systemd

I moved my soft router (Intel N5105, Debian) from school to home, and at home it’s behind an ONU on bridge mode, so it’ll have to do PPPoE itself.

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My firewall solution for RDP

Today I stumbled upon this V2EX post (Simplified Chinese) where the OP shared their PowerShell implementation of a “makeshift fail2ban” for RDP (their GitHub repository). Their script looked very c...

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Debugging Proxmox VE Firewall Dropping TCP Reset Packets

A few days back when I was setting up a new VM to host some extra websites, I noticed an unexpected Nginx error page. As I don’t administer the new websites, I just added reverse proxy rules on the...

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My automated Daily Health Report infrastructure

Back in the days when the Zero COVID policy was prevailing, our university introduced a Daily Health Report system. Students and faculty were mandated to submit a daily online form detailing their ...

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Secure site-to-site connection with Linux IPsec VPN

Linux has a built-in framework for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), which is often combined with other tunneling technologies (e.g. L2TP and GRE) to create secure cross-site network connections....

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