Debian Administration

Most of my kit is sitting close together so they are all on the same single Gig Ethernet switch. To use my notebook away from the office I use a pair of Delovo 200AV HomePlug units to provide networking.

When a friend brought a notebook with WiFi round once, it picked up three open networks that overlapped on my house...

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Adam

I have a small server connected to the internet and two workstations, one for myself and one for my wife. The machines are connected via switched ethernet. I don't have WiFi and I probably never will.

Sometimes I connect other machines to my network, e.g. guests with their laptops, so they can access internet. Sometimes I connect a second network to my machine.

But most of the time, the simple setup suffices. If I need more machines within my network, I use Xen.

I am looking for a solution to replace the workstations with thin clients, but I didn't find machines yet, that fit my ideas.


cb

I mainly use switched ethernet, but my firewall is connected through wifi to the router. I also have another wifi AP for 2 laptops in the LAN.

The TV box uses ethernet over powerline to reach the router.

Cheers,
Julien

Im sharing with friends at this house so we have cables everywhere and wireless :) 1 router in my room which connects to a switch in here, which uplinks to a switch downstairs for console + media centre (xbmc rocks), wireless for the nintendo wii and switch/cables on each floor for desktop systems.

sno

a mess!

i have two wired networks (1500 mtu fast ethernet & jumbo-frame gigabit ethernet) and a wifi network.

the wifi network was originally to accomodate not punching holes in an apartment, but even after relocating all computers to a single room it was still used just because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". now the wireless network accommodates an internet tablet and the occasionally laptop.

the wired network is a bit complex hardware-wise because i insist on using jumbo frames on the gigabit network and most of the "embedded" fast ethernet hardware (router, ap, printer) isn't jumbo-capable, so there are two networks, jumbo/gigabit & 1500mtu/100Mb, and jumbo-capable computers are dual-homed (necessitating two nics & patch cables per computer, and two switches, one for each network).

i investigated vlans, where the plain network would be 1500 mtu with jumbo frames encapsulated in a vlan (hopefully disregarded by the non-jumbo, non-vlan hardware), but through experimentation in linux you apparently can't have a vlan with a larger mtu than the underlying lan. so one of these days i'm going to spend the money for an intelligent switch, assign by port all the non-jumbo hardware to a 1500 mtu vlan, allow the jumbo-capable boxes to do their own vlan tagging (to talk to both networks), and consolidate this hardware/wiring mess.

does anybody know a better/simpler/different/creative approach to allowing both 1500 & 9000 mtu?

I have a simple network with a hub plugged to my adsl modem, routing the internet to my computer and my wife laptop.

I have a 3com Gigabit switch in the attic for the sparc station and cabled to the dowstairs electric cupbaord where I have a Wireless router maily for the wifes laptop but also nice for the PSP ;)

If it wasnt for the fact that I had to run cables and drill into the front room it would be cabling throughout ...

Works ok though when the neighbour is not trying to hack my wifi!!

I use CPL for my desktops and wifi for my laptop. Fortunately, I use a small router that is not powserful enought to let my neighbours connect to it.

Comcast cable (not my choice -- go DSL or commercial if you can) is routed through the CaMod to a 5-port WAP router. Three desktops and up to four laptops at a time have used this connection, all wireless. Out of those seven machines, one LT is Vista, two are WinXP, one was Win98, and I forget what the father-in-law's work LT is; one DT is a WinXP, one is a Vista, one is my Debian web/mail/everything server (safely tucked away with masquerade et al), which /also/ services a CAT-5 connection to at least one other desktop (or up to 3 more, if I connect this 4-port hub) and MASQs its Internet connection there.

I'll eventually get the wife into Linux. The in-laws are a lost cause.

Two machines connected to the adsl huawei modem. XP in the USB port and Etch in the ethernet one. Local transfers reach 660KB per second. the speed of the link is 1024/512.

Business cable line direct to the server and also to the sub-network on switched ethernet, with wireless sprouting off from there to the laptops (Powerbook, MacBook Pro, XO Laptop) and the PS3 downstairs.

The ethernet cords break several fire codes in my office, I have no doubt...I haven't detangled them in ages.

I procrastinated my choice, as I have various bits of networking hardware, but I'm very impressed with the rfc2549 QoS extensions that I patched over my existing rfc1149 IPoAC homing network.

However, as a redundant local link, I also have some tins and a few bits of string. Then of course, there's always the girlfriend yelling from the other side of the house :-D

Cheers.
:wq

fritz.box (Router/NAT/Firewall/WLAN-AP/DHCP/DNS), 2 workstations, 1 laptop, 1 NAS hold together by an nine-year-old 100MBit-Switch; 2 PDAs and WLAN-Mediaplayer connected via WiFi using the fritz.box; my server is "housed" in the house of my parents using their adsl-line, which is never used up to the limits and has more bandwith than mine ;-)

Regards,

Matthias

I run off friendly neighbor power... Do you have any of that in your neighborhood?

Mine is a crappy Alcatel speedtouch and a bit of CAT5 running between that and my workstation. Yes I only have one machine.

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