[Noisebridge-discuss] Another Hub Banished to Obsolescence

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Excerpts from Andy Isaacson's message of Mon May 10 20:37:37 -0700 2010:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:32:51PM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> > With many thanks to cm1 who brought in some new switches, I've banished
> > the hub that was on top of the wall by the entrance.
> > 
> > switch4.noise is now online.
> > 
> > Bah! Be gone, ancient segment-bridging Ethernet hubs!
> 
> Oh man, now I've gotta MAC stuff before I get to snoop all your packets.
> Snif snif.

You have root on the routers, just log in and run tcpdump :)

Of course, since all the hosts are on the same LAN/subnet, everyone's
still susceptible to ARP spoofing.
 
> I've been meaning to build a 4-8 node storage cluster and try out Ceph
> at (moderate) scale:

Neato! There's definitely some more computers with many-head SATA disk
bays.

If only electricity wasn't so expensive. Perhaps a remotely-switched
power strip that'll turn off the cluster when it's not in use?

Cheers,
jof