[Noisebridge-discuss] [Rack] network down this afternoon, an interesting guide for people who want to help when the network goes down

[Ben Kochie]

I've updated the wiki

-ben

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Ben Kochie wrote:

> r00ter has been replaced by bikeshed.
>
> -ben
>
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Danny O'Brien wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Ben Kochie <superq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> To me it sounds like there was a rouge dhcp server or some kind of
>>>> dhcp problem going on and nothing to do with the links.
>>> 
>>> EIther that or some legitimate breakage or resource constraint on the 
>>> Soekris.
>>> It's really hard to tell what "dhcp is broken" means without doing a
>>> packet capture or heavy logging from a DHCP client. And I'd much
>>> rather not setup something to just log packets to look back on when
>>> things are "broken", that wouldn't be very nice.
>>> 
>>> It's certainly possible that another host attached to the
>>> Ethernet/802.11 network(s) was responding to DHCP requests and
>>> poisoning people's configuration.
>> 
>> This *is* possible, but I think the fact that no-one was getting any
>> good DHCP values argues slightly against it.
>> 
>> Just to be clear: do we still have r00ter and bikeshed? Or have these
>> been smershed into just bikeshed?
>> 
>> If so, could someone update
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Network#Routers
>> 
>> with the new details, cheers.
>> 
>> d.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> This is indeed blockable, but only up to the point where managed
>>> switches end. The Juniper, and some of the Cisco switches can perform
>>> this filtering, but the 48-port Linksys or the scattering of dumb
>>> switches and hubs out and about will not be able to single-out
>>> offenders.
>>> 
>>> Not sure about the 802.11 case. I suppose it's possible with client
>>> isolation on the AP. The Ubiquiti AP probably can't, but upstream from
>>> it we can pick off those ports.
>>> 
>>>> One good way we can fix this is to put dhcp server controls at the
>>>> switch and wifi network level.  I don't know if the equipment we have
>>>> is capable of doing this. :/
>>> 
>>> I'll see if I can pick out what will and wont do it.
>>> 
>>> --j
>>> 
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