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    GRC Shields up site: Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED)

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    • KOMK Online
      KOM
      last edited by

      And no replies. What's what you would expect to see when you're blocking the traffic. They knock on your door but you don't answer. You're fine. If anything is replying to those ping requests from SU, it's not pfSense.

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        Mosquitor @KOM
        last edited by Mosquitor

        @KOM

        I did the !vpnserver1_IP in the packetcapture and got this
        https://pastebin.com/0cxdS32E
        still no replies

        Ok. Yeah must just be the modem not in bridge mode is what grc is detecting as you said. So you're also saying hackers cant get any information about devices on my network since the requests never make it to my machine because they are blocked by pfsense? Could they get information about my modem though and attack my modem?

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        • KOMK Online
          KOM
          last edited by

          Either that or SU is giving a false positive. It can't be the modem or you would not see the requests at all. So nothing is replying, which makes me believe that SU is wrong.

          Yes, you're protected by pfSense. As for your modem, there is nothing you can do about that.

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          • chpalmerC Offline
            chpalmer @KOM
            last edited by

            @KOM said in GRC Shields up site: Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED):

            Take that site with a grain of salt. Steve Gibson is known to be somewhat of an alarmist.

            I wish the GRCsucks.com site was still around..

            Triggering snowflakes one by one..
            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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              Mosquitor @KOM
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              @KOM

              Ok I understand now. Thank you very much for your help.

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              • johnpozJ Online
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by johnpoz

                @KOM said in GRC Shields up site: Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED):

                somewhat of an alarmist.

                Hehehe understatement of the week :)

                The sky is falling is his moto for sure.. Back in the day raw packets were going to be the death of everything, hehehehe

                Out of the box pfsense is "stealth" to use his stupid term..

                I specifically allow pings on my wan, so I can actually have outside sites check if up ;) And I even reject the traceroute udp ports so I can get valid traceroute to my IP when remote - where it actually answers..

                An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
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                • chpalmerC Offline
                  chpalmer
                  last edited by chpalmer

                  http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

                  Don't get me wrong.. I think the guy is smart. To a point.

                  Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                  • johnpozJ Online
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    If you mean smart in selling snake oil to "users" sure ok ;)

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                    • chpalmerC Offline
                      chpalmer @johnpoz
                      last edited by

                      @johnpoz said in GRC Shields up site: Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED):

                      If you mean smart in selling snake oil to "users" sure ok ;)

                      Yup. :)

                      Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                      • KOMK Online
                        KOM
                        last edited by

                        Yes, I remember all his hype back in the day. The sky was always going to fall, everyone ignored him and life went on as usual.

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                        • M Offline
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                          last edited by Mosquitor

                          It turns out, I didnt remove all of the icmp block rules. now that i have, Im having a couple of problems

                          1. is that I am seeing ICMP replies
                          2. I see my default dns which is google dns but I have dns over tls setup for cloudflare dns so I dont know why im seeing 8.8.8.8 when connected to vpn server2 and Im not sure to to fix that.

                          https://pastebin.com/GVSVu7BL

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                          • KOMK Online
                            KOM
                            last edited by KOM

                            That's you pinging Google DNS and them replying.

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                            • M Offline
                              Mosquitor @KOM
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                              @KOM

                              ok. can you tell me how to set up a gatway group using 2 vpn servers to both use cloudflare dns over tls ? I might have missed a step while creating the config for the second server. Or should I create a new thread?

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                              • KOMK Online
                                KOM
                                last edited by

                                That's a new thread.

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                                  Mosquitor
                                  last edited by

                                  ok

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