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...
jason.rokea.ch2 min read
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