Don’t Forget about Bogons…

OPNsense 25.7.1 incorrectly states that the bogons list does not contain RFC 1918 addresses. After a severe round of early September storms here in Southeast Michigan we’re in the midst of a multi-day power-and-internet outage. While mobile hot spots were kinda working, it was also a pain not having the normal network up, especially as I troubleshot why some Home Assistant devices didn’t come back online. So I set out to up our normal network with a tethered mobile phone as its public internet link instead of the cable modem. This was super-easy to do, in general, using the aforementioned GL-MT3000 reset to defaults†, connected to an iPhone, in basic router mode, and plugged into the WAN port of my OPNsense router (replacing the cable modem). I did this instead of connecting the iPhone directly because OPNsense doesn’t have all the drivers needed loaded by default — changes I didn’t want to make for a temporary solution — and the router is down in the basement where cell phone signal…