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[Solved] OpenWrt & fail2ban (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by pogodem0n@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi, c/selfhosted! This is my first post on Fediverse and I am glad to be making it here.

I recently got fed up with having to use Tailscale to access my server at home and decided to expose it publicly. A friend recommended segregating the server into a dedicated VLAN. My router's stock firmware does not allow that, so I flashed OpenWrt on it (I am amazed how simple and easy the process was).

Getting the router to actually assign an IP address to the server was quite a headache (with no prior experience using OpenWrt), but I managed to do it at the end with a help from a tutorial video on YouTube.

Now, everything is working perfectly fine and as I'd expect, except that all requests' IP addresses are set to the router's IP address (192.168.3.1), so I am unable to use proper rate limiting and especially fail2ban.

I was hoping someone here would have an experience with this situation and help me.

Edit: Solved thanks to @PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de.

I messed around with the port-forward settings with no luck in the past. Instead, disabling the “Masquerade” option in the firewall settings for the server’s VLAN worked.

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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

Try experimenting with the masquerade setting on the VLAN its on.