Video ideas

These are some things I am looking to make videos on.  

If any of these topics sound interesting, and you have questions, respond with the topic and your question.

This will help me to direct the videos.  It also helps set a foundation for the general knowledge base of anyone interested in these types of videos.



PFSense on an old Dell BEAST (Enterprise overkill)

 

Replacing Capacitors to ressurect Enterprise RAID Controllers

 

Setting up an AP as a client.

 

VLANs and how to use them


Designing and protecting your home network.
 

The Asterisk Phone System and Why it’s awesome!

 

Understanding VPNs: how they work, and traditional uses

Definitely the Asterisk video as well as the home network one

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I would really like to see some PFSense stuff. Also designing and protecting home networks stood out to me.

Keep it up Qain!

ps. love your livestreams

probably not the answer you were looking for but...all of them lol All topics I'd like to learn more about for sure. But if I had to choose, I'd pick "Replacing Capacitors to ressurect Enterprise RAID Controllers"...I enjoy the hands-on stuff the most. Can't wait for your vids.

Same here: All of it please. But if I had to choose: Home Network, VLAN, AP as client, PFSense... All work related, in all cases I have some knowledge and would love to hear/see what you are doing with it. And where I was wrong ;-)

VPN's and PFSense would be awesome. Although they all sound like great ideas.

Is there anything on these topics that you have any specific questions that I could answer in the videos?

i have always thought the topics from you like networking and linux/bsd and other stuff is very interesting.. continue with the great work Qain!

 

Setting up and protecting your network. Honestly Id like to see it all

I'd love to see all of them, but the last 4 sound the most interesting. 

Designing and protecting your home network and PFSense

Wouldn't mind seeing you solder some capacitors, would like to see your technique of doing it :)  And I think the home network security idea would be great for beginners (Don't want to know how many people still us WEP)...

A dummies guide to the basics of a VPN would be rad. As far as I know it is all done through black magic.

The asterisk phone system, and designing and protecting your home network would be great. 

Tinfoil home networking & PfSense in general, theres not many quality videos about PfS unfortunately.

- Managing Firewall rules

- Setting up VLANs, with captive portal enabled in 1

- Some common packages, for example: pfBlocker, squid, HAVP (+ how to customize the alert screen) and Snort (IPS mode) for unencrypted traffic.

- How to VPN into LAN from the WAN side

Home network for sure and I would enjoy watching you repair any PCBs. I just replaced a fuse holder on a control board for an espresso machine and would like to see how you would do it. You could make a video on making jam and I would watch it. 

These all look like good ideas, but here are some thoughts on two in particular that I'd find interesting.

VLANs would be a really interesting one for me. They seem like a pretty straightforward idea, but then when you get into it there's all these details: different port types like trunk, customer, general; MVRP/GARP; untagged/tagged; double-tagging, does it work over wifi, etc.

I think if you do make a video on this, what I would really like to see is some practical demonstrations that show how things work. For example, set up a trunk port and show some tcpdump or wireshark output and point out, "ok here's some traffic on the trunk port, we can see all this untagged traffic that's from here, and these other packets are tagged with some different vlans, this is what nested traffic looks like, this is what you get when you switch the port to that mode, see I can send this and it comes out like that..." etc. So don't just tell me, show me, too.

With pfSense, one thing I see people confused about occasionally is that it's not really intended to be used as a switch on the LAN side. People hear router and think about their all in one plastic box, and just assume they should throw a bunch of NICs in to get a bunch of ports like they have on their Linksys or whatever. Really the interface is not designed with that in mind, and what they actually need is an external switch, not a bunch of NICs. A bunch of ports is great if you need separate LANs or a DMZ or other stuff like that, but trying to bridge multiple ports and set the bridge as the LAN interface is a pain in the butt through the web interface. Anyway I digress, I just thought I'd mention that in case you have noticed that or similar gotchas (WiFi for example) that might deserve mentioning in a video.

I vote for designing and protecting your home network

Myths and preconceptions about VLANs e.g. a "your doing it wrong" part where you show how VLANs can make one's life easier but are overlooked most of the time.

Regarding PFSense: General information about packages you consider a must-have and network auditing using PFSense (Traffic-monitoring, Intrusion detection, Broadcast issues...)

Designing and protecting your home network as a start (because you have to have a solid network before you can improve it with the rest of the aforementioned topics)