[Noisebridge-discuss] Network @ the space

[Matt Peterson]

Apologies and thanks for the patience on my efforts to clean up the  
network (layer1 and above).  Thanks to help from Rubin and Beth last  
night, we yanked all the crufty wiring on the first floor and  
installed two nice small (labeled!) surface mount boxes, each with two  
ethernet hookups.  The trend will continue upstairs in coming time  
(any volunteers?  Will supply training, tools and supplies).  Also we  
now have 12 cables running between the floor, patch panel to patch  
panel.  A bunch of other clean-up work has occurred too, but I don't  
remember it all.  I plan to put further documentation on the wiki.

It should be noted we now have a sort of ghetto load balancing  
configuration, powered by some pf "route-to" rules.  Outbound SSH,  
HTTP, HTTPS and 8080 ride over the "fast" Cable modem (clocked in  
roughly 16Mbps), while all other TCP/UDP/ICMP traffic flows out the  
"slow" (6Mbps) ADSL connection.  The theory is that consumer-class  
hackers will bandwidth hog over the web while the clueful-types  
already SSH port forward their surfing habits; "bad" stuff like  
BitTorrent shunts out the slower of the two tubes.  The plan is to  
offer some web page on the router to manually failover traffic to a  
single ISP incase of an outage.  To clarify, this would mean the  
source IP of SSH would be different then a ping.

Yes, efforts still existing to tap in fiber a few blocks away and  
other bigger interwebs, but for now we're working with what we got.   
Some additional port forwarding needs to be restored to pony and other  
machines, however Seth's VoIP adapter now works.  That's all for now;  
cheers.

--Matt

P.S. I'm not responsible for the /hanging fruit/ ole power & ethernet  
to the center tables - even though I think the concept is cool and em  
happy cables no longer traverse a pedestrian path.