Year: 2020

  • Conditional Routing with PF

    Conditional Routing with PF

    Public IPs have been replaced with TEST-NET equivalents for obvious reasons. Enjoy! I have a rather nice ISP which allows me to use two public IPv4 addresses: one is dynamic and routed through their gateway at 192.168.64.1 and the other one is static, bridged directly to the internet through an extra port on the modem.…

  • Proventia GX4004 firewall: teardown and OpenBSD install

    Proventia GX4004 firewall: teardown and OpenBSD install

    Firewalls aren’t as special as they’re made out to be in the business sphere. Sometimes salesmen will try to convince you otherwise, claiming their network appliances use application specific hardware, but teardowns often disappoint. This teardown of the IBM Proventia GX4004 is no different, as the firewall appliance turns out to be a very ordinary…