Hello everybody.
This is just to thank Seth and Vick who have answered my questions and
gave advice.
Unfortunately I could not follow my plan to add a pfSense box to my home
network because the vdsl router didn't work as a bridge.. too bad!
Anyways, the botnet attack is over and my router is now happy again.
Thank you all and best regards.
Robi
Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Hi all.
I have a problem with my home internet connection.
My vdsl router gets on the wan interface about 40-50 requests per second
on port 80 and when I configure it so that it forwards that traffic to
my web server, the router can't bear the load and freezes after a few
seconds. All that traffic is not normal.. it's a botnet attack.. on my
server I have scripts that examines the logs and adds the violator IPs
as DROP in iptables. After a week, this morning I counted over 140'000
unique IP DROP entries! The server seems to face well the attack.. but
when the load it's so high, the vdsl router just freezes.
So, I thought I may configure the vdsl router as a bridge and put a
pfsense box in between the bridge and my home network.
Apart from the fact that yet I don't know how the router will behave
when configured as a bridge (will it bear the network load? what will
happen to the four lan ports? only one will be left active?), I would
like to know how should I configure the pfsense box.. I mean.. would it
be enough to just move the configuration from the vdsl router to the
pfsense box? The vdsl router is now configured with PPPoE over PTM
(POTS).. would it be fine if I configure pfsense as PPPoE on the wan
interface?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards.
Robi
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