Per-User VPN Routing

This tutorial will show how to route all the traffic belonging to particular user account through an OpenVPN tunnel

Improved IPtables Tutorial

This tutorial is a beginner friendly introduction to the iptables firewall and includes a number of practical examples.

Customizing Digitalocean Floating IPs

Digitalocean allows, for free, the option to add an additional IP address to your virtual machine ("droplet"). These floating IPs are similiar to Amazon AWS Elastic IPs and are tied to your account and location, rather than any specific instance This means that when an instance is destroyed,

Routeable Loopback Addresses

Today we will learn about loopback addresses that can be reached from the outside via routing. This is useful for running services on a router In a previous post, I talked about the loopback interface and how we can locally bind services to any address in the range 127.0.

Block all traffic from your neighbours using iptables

This tutorial creates rules to limit traffic (both ingress/egress) only to gateway. This prevents traffic from other patrons reaching you when using public wifi

Using Ferm to sweeten IPTables

Ferm is a 'frontend' for iptables written in Perl. The best way to describe it is a firewall compiler (although it can do more than that, as we'll see later). Ferm provides a syntax that is simple, rich, and flexible for writing rules, ferm then generates a list of iptables rules.