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On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:07 john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:

> > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 15:18 john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote:

  >>> I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit

> >>> about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm

>>> doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they
> >>> recommend for such use?


I found the book I once consulted and just bought the Kindle version:

    Networking for Systems Administrators, Michael W. Lucas, 2014

Mr. Lucas has also written books on *BSD, ssh, and DNS.

Here are some comments in addition to this thread:
> - Do not use the router capability provided by your ISP.
> This is mainly to avoid letting your ISP remotely control the thing and
> disable the firewall for example.


Good advice.

If you can, use your own router.


Ditto.

If your ISP requires to work with their router put the ISP thing in
> 'bridge'/modem only mode, this will allow to get your public IPv4
> address to your own gateway.


Check.

- Use VPN to access your servers remotely.


> I find it easier to use a VPN (responsible for public remote connection)
> to connect to my own network then use SSH (responsible for private
> remote connection) to connect to my intranet devices
>
> This also give you two layers of authentication and you have separate
> services.


But, given a properly passwordless ssh connection, is there anything
extraordinarily dangerous versus a VPN, or is it the redundancy you favor?
(I am the only superuser, and usually the only user of my network.)

BTW, regarding pfsense, I forgot it runs on BSD, so I plan to get their
small appliance to hang off the ISP router.

Thanks, Mr. John Doe.

-Tom

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Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-03 21:50 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2022-05-03 22:20 +0200
    Re: Networking book recommendation Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-05-03 22:30 +0200
      Re: Networking book recommendation <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-04 07:00 +0200
        Re: Networking book recommendation Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-05-04 08:00 +0200
    Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-03 22:40 +0200
      Re: Networking book recommendation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-03 23:10 +0200
      Re: Networking book recommendation john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2022-05-04 18:10 +0200
        Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 16:40 +0200
          Re: Networking book recommendation john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2022-05-05 21:40 +0200
            Re: Networking book recommendation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-05 23:10 +0200
              Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 00:40 +0200
                Re: Networking book recommendation Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 03:50 +0200
                Re: Networking book recommendation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-06 04:00 +0200
                Re: Networking book recommendation john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2022-05-06 09:00 +0200
          Re: Networking book recommendation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-05 22:50 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-03 22:40 +0200
    Re: Networking book recommendation Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-05-03 23:00 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-03 23:00 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-03 23:20 +0200
    Re: Networking book recommendation Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-03 23:30 +0200
      Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-03 23:40 +0200
    Re: Networking book recommendation Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2022-05-04 00:30 +0200
      Re: Networking book recommendation Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-04 01:40 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-04 01:50 +0200
  Re: Networking book recommendation "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2022-05-07 10:00 +0200

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