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Discussion on "Mitigating an OpenVPN Brute Force Attack with Fail2Ban on EdgeRouter" | Hashnode

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Jason R. Rokeach

Sr. Solutions Architect at Juniper Networks :: Passionately pursuing networking futures.

Sep 9, 2018

Mitigating an OpenVPN Brute Force Attack with Fail2Ban on EdgeRouter

Tonight, I noticed numerous attempts from a variety of sources to log in to my OpenVPN server that I run on my EdgeRouter (ER-X-SFP) at home. Unfortunately EdgeRouter doesn't support any sort of blacklisting for OpenVPN natively, but it does allow th...

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Jordy Swiggers

Windows support engineer

Hi Jason,

Excellent writeup can't wait to try this later.

I've just purchased en er-x sfp and have noticed the exact same, constant failed login attempts on opnvpn.

I noticed however that the link fornthe followup article about making it persistent is dead.

Any chance you could update it?

TIA, Jordy

Jan 16, 2023

Jason R. Rokeach

Sr. Solutions Architect at Juniper Networks :: Passionately pursuing networking futures.

Jan 17, 2023

Hi Jordy Swiggers! Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve updated the link in the article. Here it is as well: jason.rokea.ch/edgerouter-fail2ban-persistence-th…