I’m not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.
What’s your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?
Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.
…and how do you manage those speeds?
Three important factors:
- Gigabit ethernet
- SATA-attached storage
- My family not knowing what the fuck USB 3.0 is, and why blue USB is better than black USB.
watching all the ads and tracking domains get blocked is not guilty at all for me. i could do it all day.
lol
Sure, but why? If you’ve a simple router running OpenWrt or something with all WAN ports closed you basically have the same thing.
Maybe it’s a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.
Why do I like to watch them? Can’t explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I’m just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it’s mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.
ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you’ll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so…
Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
Do you get a lot of latency with Tailscale?
Nope! We use it for Jellyfin too which also works great 😸
Cool. I just figured traversing a Tailscale VPN would be yet another ‘thing’ between you and your gaming partners.
Tailscale runs on Wiregaurd which is ridiculously fast. Also helps we’re located physically near each other on fiber from the same company so less network hops.
I’m no stranger to Tailscale, I just thought it would have been a bit slow for gaming.
Either way you’re just going over the internet. There will be overhead, but not enough to be that big a deal.
