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Category: OpenBSD

How I've tuned OpenBSD to become my house's firewall

Posted on 2016-07-14 15:25:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Firewall

In this post I'll explain what I did to filter the internet access in my house. You will see that the access is based on simple rules and is not the same for every users.

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Build a Read only system with OpenBSD

Posted on 2016-07-12 12:06:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Firewall Nas

When you have machines that must run 24x7, you must take into account the problem of powercut. To my eyes there is 2 possible solutions: - use an UPS - have a readonly operating system In this post, I'll describe how you can easily transform your OpenBSD machine into a Read-only system.

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First thing first, let's start with my Alarm system.

Posted on 2016-07-10 13:41:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Alarm

I'll explain how I've used OpenBSD to monitor my house. Which machine, which devices, how it's send SMS"

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How I've started with OpenBSD

Posted on 2016-07-09 12:43:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Alarm

I'm using open source systems since 1998; mainly Linux at the beginning, but since several years I'm using more and more openBSD. I'll explain why and how in later posts on this blog. Initially, it was to manage my alarm system based on velleman's k8000 kit. Today all machines around me are running OpenBSD (even this blog), and few Linux.

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