At home I use ClearOS (free) as my firewall/gateway. The one thing that ClearOS lacks is a graphical packet analyzer. However, the combined use of SSH, Wireshark and tshark solves this problem perfectly. Our first step is to setup a …
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Using SSH, Wireshark and tshark to remotely analyze packets…
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on July 21, 2012
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ClearOS and Dynamic DNS Client ‘ddclient’
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on June 27, 2012
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If you would like to update your dynamic IP address to a dynamic DNS service using ‘ddclient’ and are using ClearOS, then you’ve come to the right place! Let’s get started: First, log into ClearOS. You can do this physically …
ClearOS, Web Proxy, Content Filter and XboxLive…
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on January 23, 2012
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When using ClearOS’s transparent proxy and content filtering system, XboxLive will no longer work. Even if you add the Xbox’s IP address to the exempt list on the content filter, it will not work 100%. The content filter seems to …
ClearOS: Automatically focus login input field
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on December 24, 2011
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I find it annoying to have to manually click ‘Login’ on the login page when administering ClearOS. I use Firefox’s password manager and when I type my password for the password manager I am used to hitting enter twice, once …
Installing ntop for ClearOS
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on December 21, 2011
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Installing ntop for ClearOS is trivial. Here’s what you need to do: Then set a password: Lastly, start the service: If you want to be able to control ntop from the webconfig interface you need to add a line to …
Installing knockd for ClearOS
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on December 21, 2011
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Installing knockd for ClearOS is anything but, trivial if you are not familiar with the platform. I use Ubuntu and was having a hard time with getting knockd to work on ClearOS. These are my adventures (actually fairly simple as …
Add a login/override/bypass to ClearOS’s content filter
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on December 21, 2011
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ClearOS’s content filter is based on Dansguardian. Dansguardian allows for custom configurations thereby, allowing us to easily customize the page displayed when blocked. Today, we are going to add a login/override/bypass to our content filter’s block page. You can choose …