On Thursday 30 January 2020 10:10:41 Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > I am still genuinely curious about the answers to the questions above > especially wrt. being hacked, the exact restoration conditions and the > reason for being offline to restore data? > > YMMV > Linux-Fan
20 + years ago I first heard of dd-wrt, and I ran it on an old machine for several years as an isolator between my local network in the 192.168.xx.xx range for several years. But the old box died, and I looked for a router that could be reflashed, finding at the time a buffalo netfinity which could be reset, actually came with it but they covered a piece of the menu with their blurb so I had to reflash it right away with the real thing. Then, because that was so inconvenient, I found a netgear I could reflash, but I had to clone the buffalo's mac into it to get my ipv4 address back. So I now have 2 routers available in case one gets bumped by whatever. I used to watch its logs to see the attackers that never get past it, but they never have. So I eventually got rid of verizon's 70 yo copper in favor of a slow connection from the local cable folks about 7 years back which meant I had to register a new net address, but I've now renewed that fixed address for another 5 years. In all that time I've had the web page you can access at the link in my sig and only one person, a friend of mine and a linux net guru now working as the linux guy at a 3 letter guv agency that I had to give credentials to, has come thru it. I'd say that's pretty darned good security, yet I can go anyplace on the net I want to from here or one of the other 4 or 5 machines on my local net except for several dozen iptables rules of the xx.xx.xx.xx/24 variety because they are web spiders that don't play by the robots.txt rules, instead of indexing my pages, they insist on mirroring it, burning up what little upload bandwidth I have. Because at the moment I am supplying an armhf build of LinuxCNC and the preempt-rt kernel that runs on a raspberry-pi4b to run cnc machinery with. And its doing it as well as 3 other LCNC installs on x86 machines can. Lesson? junk your router and get one that can be reflashed, dd-wrt has some competition. Router reflash files are downloadable for free from the dd-wrt site. And sleep well with your stuff up 24/7/365. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
