Cheers, I’ve since discovered that’s is “bouncers” that I want on the endpoints I.e on my Nginx Proxy Manager. I’ll just use the LAPI on the Opnsense box for now I think.

I thought crowdsec does everything fail2ban does in addition to global block lists?

Where did you have it setup? Is your proxy configured to forward the real IP?

Nah, that one conflicts with my IPoAC networks unfortunately :(

I did have that same thought actually, with opening up opnsense to be modified. But I also like the idea of it getting blocked before it even gets into my network, instead if letting it in initially and then blocking afterwards - that’s kinda the whole job of a firewall after all ha ha

Awesome that makes a lot of sense, cheers. So I’ll install the Crowdsec agent on the Nginx Proxy Manager, and potentially also on the servers.

Thanks those links were helpful to get me on the right path. I like that there is a plugin for Opnsense directly and has that central LAPI, because I’d need something similar if I was to use f2b.