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Router Miscellaneous

Monitoring

There are a number of linux monitoring packages available. See these links for more examples see, 13 Linux Performance Monitoring Tools – Part 2, and 30 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know. Below are a few that I have tried and use.

iftop

iftop - display bandwidth usage on an interface by host

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NFTables Configuration

The best reference for nftables is at the dedicated wiki wiki nftables. Some other references I found nftables router. The reference at stosb is good, but not for a router Explaining My Configs: nftables. Nftables Cheatsheet

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ISP PPPoE Network Setup

A reasonably comprehensive discussion on Ubuntu forums Setup Ubuntu Server as a router using a PPPoE connection, MTU and TCP MSS when using PPPoE. Also from Ubuntu forums How to Optimize your Internet Connection using MTU and RWIN. Ubuntu documentation ADSLPPPoE. PPPD manual page.

Another reference is Confirm Blog Using PPPoE on Linux.

Some other references:

	*  Connecting to NBN HFC with a linux router] Internode router set…</description>
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DHCP / DNS Setup

Outdated

I have moved my DNS and DHCP servers to Docker, Docker-DNS Server.  I am still using ISC_Bind9, but am now using ISC_Kea for DHCP as ISC_Bind is no longer supported as of 2022.

tl;dr;

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Wireguard VPN access from WAN to LAN

I use a Docker instance for my Wireguard server now.

I use 2 forms of vpn (virtual private network) on my home server.

	*  VPN to gain remote secure private access to my home LAN from the WAN (internet). This is the one I am describing here.</description>
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Router Configuration, Switch &amp; Server Setup

Router Configuration

[DRAFT]
A router performs the following key features:

	*  A gateway between different network areas
		*  Restrict network traffic
		*  Forward Network traffic
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