Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-11 Thread tda
Hi Ralph On 11/03/2019 13:49, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: As of today I think I'm actually a few steps behind on all this. I'd blocked CC#2's phone from connecting to the network (at the MAC level) but this morning he managed to take the network down for 15 minutes before leaving for

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-11 Thread tda
Hi Ralph On 11/03/2019 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, I had another idea. Use Quality of Service rules to slow down traffic to sites CC#2 likes, e.g. YouTube, during verboten hours for the whole home network on the assumption it won't impact SWMBO. The idea being that access works, but

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-11 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 11/03/2019 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, The built in Draytek server allows for setting an IP address and mask and they have a number of help guides which I'll go through. But I'm getting the impression this is a bit OTT for a home network. I had another idea. Use Quality of

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > The built in Draytek server allows for setting an IP address and mask > and they have a number of help guides which I'll go through. But I'm > getting the impression this is a bit OTT for a home network. I had another idea. Use Quality of Service rules to slow down traffic to sites

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-10 Thread tda
Hi Patrick On 10/03/2019 01:36, Patrick Wigmore wrote: My experience of RADIUS is limited to being a sometime user of [eduroam][1], which uses it. Thanks for explaining how this could work. If the client can be reliably forced into a particular VLAN or a particular IP address by the access

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > > So RADIUS knows how to Authenticate. It then Authorises > > I have made the old mistake of conflating Authentication and > Authorisation. I think I initially got them the wrong way around at least once when typing. It's a bad idea in software to have identifiers that are

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-10 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:57:56 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > So RADIUS knows how to Authenticate. It then Authorises I have made the old mistake of conflating Authentication and Authorisation. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-04-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, Patrick wrote: > My understanding is that RADIUS is a protocol for services that > provide authentication for one or more different network access > mechanisms. So, on its own, RADIUS is not really a solution at all, > just part of a solution. Yes, I think there's three parties. The

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim H, > Think you will find it now called IPFire, think they have a free and > paid for version including hardware devices as well. Thanks, I hadn't heard of them. Seems it's a fork of IPCop from long ago, just as IPCop was a Smothwall fork. IPFire are still going, but marked the demise of

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-09 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:58:26 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > Yes, not only that but I'm hoping that CC#2, by trying to beat the > system, will learn a bit about networking rather than just using > it. :-) > As someone who hasn't come across RADIUS before, could you explain > how it could

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-09 Thread tda
Hi Patrick On 08/03/2019 21:56, Patrick Wigmore wrote: I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might be quite enjoying the cat and mouse game, and so going straight for the 'nuclear option' of RADIUS might spoil the fun! Having said that, perhaps I am underestimating the

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-09 Thread tim
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:57:37 + PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > On 09/03/2019 10:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > > >> I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might be quite > >> enjoying the cat and mouse game > > A motivator attacker seems prefereable to a

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-09 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 09/03/2019 10:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Patrick, I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might be quite enjoying the cat and mouse game A motivator attacker seems prefereable to a consuming CC#2. :-) and so going straight for the 'nuclear option' of RADIUS might spoil

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might be quite > enjoying the cat and mouse game A motivator attacker seems prefereable to a consuming CC#2. :-) > and so going straight for the 'nuclear option' of RADIUS might spoil > the fun! True. It occurred to me that

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:23:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I've not used it, and don't fully understand its operation, but I > wonder if RADIUS is well suited to the `authentication and > authorisation' of clients to the home network. I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread tda
Hi Ralph On 08/03/2019 16:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, There's a fair number of devices (20-30) on the network at any time. I've not used it, and don't fully understand its operation, but I wonder if RADIUS is well suited to the `authentication and authorisation' of clients to the home

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread tda
Hi Keith On 08/03/2019 16:46, Keith Edmunds wrote: You might want to install arpalert, too. http://www.arpalert.org/arpalert.html Thanks, have installed and set this up. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-04-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread Keith Edmunds
You might want to install arpalert, too. http://www.arpalert.org/arpalert.html -- Linux Tips: https://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/category/techtips/ -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-04-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ...

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > There's a fair number of devices (20-30) on the network at any time. I've not used it, and don't fully understand its operation, but I wonder if RADIUS is well suited to the `authentication and authorisation' of clients to the home network. https://freeradius.org/ is popular and

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread tda
Hi Stephen On 08/03/2019 11:17, Stephen Wolff wrote: Hiya then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost Centre #2 left for school. Blimey. Hadn’t considered that CCs could upset networking routing in the house. I think I’d better try this SmokePing thing Try

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread tda
Hi Ralph On 08/03/2019 11:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost Centre #2 left for school. I was going to mention at the club if it could be your policy rules interfering. It didn't occur to me it could be them being routed

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread Stephen Wolff
Hiya >> then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost >> Centre #2 left for school. Blimey. Hadn’t considered that CCs could upset networking routing in the house. I think I’d better try this SmokePing thing -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-04-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost > Centre #2 left for school. I was going to mention at the club if it could be your policy rules interfering. It didn't occur to me it could be them being routed around. :-) > A few months ago, everything starts

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-06 Thread tda
Hi Aidan On 06/03/2019 13:22, aidangcole--- via dorset wrote: Personally, I tend to use SmokePing for this type of thing https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ Took a look at this as it looked ideal, but does pull in a bunch of dependencies including Apache and a mail server. Cheers Tim

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-06 Thread aidangcole--- via dorset
Personally, I tend to use SmokePing for this type of thing https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ On 06/03/2019 13:12, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi Ralph On 06/03/2019 08:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Discussion last night included spotting if one's connection to the Internet suffered

Re: [Dorset] Monitoring Internet Connectivity.

2019-03-06 Thread tda
Hi Ralph On 06/03/2019 08:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Discussion last night included spotting if one's connection to the Internet suffered problems overnight. The conclusion was a simple script to log data for later inspection with journalctl(1) was probably good enough. Attached is such a