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    Zero-alcohol driving law for South Africa is like setting a 30km/h highway speed limit and jailing people for it

    Why should I not have a glass of wine with dinner at the restaurant? For zero reason, they want to take my freedom away, just because they are unable/incompetent to enforce?
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    Zero-alcohol driving law for South Africa is like setting a 30km/h highway speed limit and jailing people for it

    ANC is like a bunch of children when it comes to making laws. The problem is not driving with the already low alcohol limit, it is bad enforcement. Stricter rules will not change habits. This proposal is not reasonable and will fail when challenged in court.
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    Ok I have used Opnsense for 5 years and before that PFSense for many years (10+). I think I am covered. Just commenting on the amount of port scanning. Mine looks like about 30% incoming is dropped.
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    Ok Destination NAT then (DNAT), commonly known as 'Port Forwarding' is what you are talking about.
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    I think you have it wrong. Port forwarding is letting external traffic into/ through your firewall and directing it to a specific internal ip and port. I'd agree with 'don't port forward'. NAT was invented so that many of your network devices could share the same public IP. Your outbound packets...
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    I do have NAT, because ..... IPv4, you know. I don't have a static IPv4 connection. But why would that be any different? Every public IP address I get from Afrihost has continuous port scans going on. It's a filthy world out there on internet streets.
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    I'm using Opnsense. isn't fail2ban a tool to monitor open ports, and then dropping failed attempts on that port? I don't have any ports open at this stage, so it's more just port scans I am seeing
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    :ROFL: p-o-r-t-s Your mind is in the wrong place :-)
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    Yes that goes without saying, I just wonder, if there is so much port scanning going on accross the whole of the ISP network, they can probably clear that away? My firewall logs will look much better
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    Constant port scans on my router WAN (Afrihost on Openserve)

    This weekend I spent a good couple of hours staring at my live firewall logs. What I saw was constant port scans from IPs all across the world (Bulgaria, America, Netherlands etc.) Not even scanning random ports, just going down the list like 39000, 39001, 39002 etc. I disconnected for a while...
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    Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

    Sheesh I had to look up that BIM term, thought you were talking about something IT. Then I realized what you were talking about :laugh: ... I designed water reticulation and roads on a drafting table.... With a HP41CV. Never used a CAD system, and left civil for IT before it became a real thing...
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    Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

    I've been using desktop linux since 2000 at home, pretty much exclusively. Work is a different issue because most companies insist on MSOffice. In my opinion the last hurdles are the MS office suite and Adobe products. We are seeing the emergence of the Euro Office Project that may make it...
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    MetroFibre enabled IPv6

    I don't know how they set things up unfortunately. Normally you would get a different Prefix on your lan, than on your wan. And sometimes like on Openserve, you only get a link local on the wan (fe80::10). Test your IPv6 setup by going to https://test-ipv6.run/
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    MetroFibre enabled IPv6

    MetroFibre leads all other ISPs in IPv6 adoption. They are doing a great job with IPv6.
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    IPV6 only home network bliss closer by year-end! (except for IOT)

    Ok, bad idea. I yanked the ipv4 network out of my network management vlan and basically locked myself out of my whole network. I struggled till now to get it back. So the verdict is: UnifiOS, switches and access points can pass on IPv6 traffic to client devices, but absolutely needs IPv4 to be...
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