OPENWRT DEEP DIVE: Advanced Firewalls, Secure VPNs & Mesh Networks - Couverture souple

Sovora, Shandalia

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798271005244

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🔒📶⚡ OpenWrt Deep Dive is the definitive, hands-on guide to building secure, fast, and resilient networks—from firewalls to VPNs to mesh—written for real practitioners who ship production systems.

🧭 About the author & mission: Shandalia Sovora has spent years hardening OpenWrt for businesses, campuses, and homelabs. This book distills field experience into repeatable playbooks that replace scattered forum posts with a clear, verification-first method. If you’ve ever wrestled with half-working configs, this is your no-nonsense path to mastery.

🚨 Stop guessing. Start engineering. Every chapter couples architecture decisions with ready-to-paste UCI and shell snippets, then proves them using logs, counters, and tests. You’ll work with fw4/nftables, netfilter, procd, opkg, UCI, cryptographic protocols, routing algorithms, and performance tuners—always with rollback and troubleshooting built in.

🚀 What you’ll build, step by step:

• 🛡️ Hardened firewall with fw4/nftables, least-privilege zones, kill-switches, and attack-surface minimization.


• 🔐 Secure VPNs—WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IPsec—complete key management, split-tunnel and policy-based routing, and multi-site failover.


• 🗺️ Enterprise-grade mesh via 802.11s and batman-adv, with OLSR/Babel backbones, channel planning, and roaming optimization.


• 📈 Performance using SQM CAKE/HTB, hardware offload, sysctl tuning, and before/after benchmarking.


• 🧪 Observability with collectd, Prometheus exporters, centralized syslog, alert thresholds, and incident runbooks.


• 🧰 Security monitoring using Suricata/Snort on OpenWrt, custom rules, and actionable detections.

🧩 Inside you get:

• 🛠️ End-to-end configurations annotated line-by-line—no missing pieces.


• ✅ Verification checklists, health probes, and deterministic rollbacks.


• 🧠 Decision trees that explain when to choose 802.11s vs batman-adv, WireGuard vs OpenVPN, CAKE vs HTB, and more.


• 🧯 Troubleshooting workflows with expected outputs, log patterns, and fix-first scripts.

🌍 Who should read this? Network engineers, sysadmins, security pros, SREs, IT generalists, makers, students, and startup teams. Beginners are welcome—each build scales from lab to production, and every risky change includes a backup and rollback path.

💡 Why it’s a must-read: You’ll cut outage time, raise throughput, and harden your edge. More importantly, you’ll gain repeatable discipline—design, implement, validate, monitor, and improve—so deployments stay stable long after launch.

🔥 Your network can be faster, safer, and easier to operate—today. Ship with confidence, not hope.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798271005244
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg