Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
You might want to take a look at "Computer Networks" by A.S. Tanenbaum and D.J. Wetherall. It's available for free online at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v=sites=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxza21pbmh8Z3g6NjQxMTI2MmYxMTAwZmNjZQ Or you can buy a copy from your local bookseller. Enjoy! Rick

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-06 Thread john doe
On 5/6/2022 12:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 16:07 David Christensen wrote: On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility, two layers of security, VPN

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 16:07 David Christensen > wrote: > > > On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: > > > > > At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the > > > conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility, two > > > layers of security, VPN

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 May 2022 17:36:14 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 16:07 David Christensen > wrote: > > > On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: > > > > > At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the > > > conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility,

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 16:07 David Christensen wrote: > On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: > > > At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the > > conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility, two > > layers of security, VPN advantages when connecting on public

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility, two layers of security, VPN advantages when connecting on public wifi) for me. I prefer to have SSH available both via old-school

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/22 09:07, john doe wrote: > Here are some comments in addition to this thread: > - Do not use the router capability provided by your ISP. > This is mainly to avoid letting your ISP remotely control the thing and > disable the firewall for example. > > If you can, use your own router. > >

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread john doe
On 5/5/2022 4:34 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:07 john doe wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 15:18 john doe wrote: On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: - Use VPN to access your servers remotely. I find it easier to use a VPN (responsible for public remote connection)

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:07 john doe wrote: > > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 15:18 john doe wrote: > >> On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >>> I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit > >>> about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-04 Thread john doe
On 5/3/2022 10:35 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 15:18 john doe wrote: On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm doing it all correctly and

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 4/5/22 12:57 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 04:27:52AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: [...] [...] NAT in itself provides quite good security because internal hosts can't be scanned by attackers. Uh, oh. I think general opinion these days disagree with this statement

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 04:27:52AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: [...] > [...] NAT in itself > provides quite good security because internal hosts can't be scanned by > attackers. Uh, oh. I think general opinion these days disagree with this statement strongly (see e.g. [1], but this has been

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/22 12:42, Tom Browder wrote: I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they recommend for such use? On 5/3/22 13:35, Tom

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 17:27 Bob Weber wrote: ... > Have you thought of using a small VM in the cloud? > Yes, I have, Bob, and I have a Digital Ocean account and plan to use it for another use case soon. But I do love having my master source and webserver where I can touch them and fix hardware

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Bob Weber
On 5/3/22 17:14, Tom Browder wrote: I appreciate all the responses, and I realize, once again, that I should have given a little more background for the question: I have been running 10+ websites using SNI on Apache on two leased remote servers for many years. I am now moving the whole

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 16:21 Greg Wooledge wrote: ... You think your home Internet connection is going to be able to handle > this traffic? The sites are historically low traffic, but I'll watch out for problems. Our current ISP is AT and they are laying fiber quickly in my area. > In

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:14:40PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I have been running 10+ websites using SNI on Apache on two leased remote > servers for many years. You think your home Internet connection is going to be able to handle this traffic? > In addition to the webserver being accessed

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 14:42 Tom Browder wrote: > I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit > about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm > doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they > recommend for such use? I

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I'm considering HaProxy downsteam from the router. > > That also brings the question, why do you need a static IPv4 address? If you want a service inside your network to be available to people outside your network (i.e. on the Internet), they need to be able to name it and

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit > about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm > doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they > recommend for such use? Almost certainly what you want is

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 14:30 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > You will want to parcel out IP addresses and host names on your home > network, so DNS and DHCP. There are other programs to do those things, > but bind and dhcpd are classics, and talk to each other. Or dnsmasq which does both

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 15:18 john doe wrote: > On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit > > about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm > > doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 3 May 2022 14:42:16 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: > I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit > about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm > doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they > recommend for such use?

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 4/5/22 4:18 am, john doe wrote: What do you mean by "correctly and securly", the networking is never secure. Depending on what you need, you might want firewall ... That also brings the question, why do you need a static IPv4 address? For almost all domestic installations a single

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread john doe
On 5/3/2022 9:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they recommend for such use? What do you mean