[Rack] Current network setup? Network wiki page?

[Kevin]

Rubin and others,  thank you for all of the effort you're pouring into the network. My request is for a couple dedicated cable drops for Noisebridge workstations. I am happy to help with setup and maintenance. 

We could install wifi cards in the desktops, but my concern is that they will be reappropreated quickly.

-Kevin


On August 11, 2014 3:20:24 PM PDT, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> Not sure if I'll be around. The current network is in a working state,
> so I suggest we meed up when Casey returns from his Minnesotan
> sabbatical.
> 
> Changes to network proposal:
> 
> * The priority is internet -> wifi, not the ethernet network.
> * Split the network into two physical zones, Crucial and Voluntary.
> * Crucial involves everything to get internet from our uplinks to the
> wifi access points plus minotaur, and get locked into a shelf high up
> in
> the networking closet with a combo lock on it.
> * Simplify Crucial to the least number of moving parts to make it as
> reliable as possible.
> * Setup minotaur to do actual monitoring and have it be able to spit
> out
> some non-technical-human-readable health status dashboard on a
> display.
> * Voluntary is a single ethernet line coming down from Crucial.
> * Keep Voluntary as simple as possible, no managed switches, no space
> to
> put a server, none of that.
> * Mount a large non-managed switch (and the patch panel) to the wall
> under the shelf. Remove and re-purpose Susan.
> * If people want to randomly plug things into the switch, it's not
> managed, we don't care.
> * Not providing any place to have servers get installed. People will
> still dump shit there and plug in, but if the space isn't there they
> wont last as long. Especially if all the power outlets are inside the
> locked shelf.
> 
> I think we should work towards figuring out a means for others to be
> able to setup server like machines in the space, however we currently
> (and never really before) had any good ways of facilitating that and
> also having good lines of communication back to those who did. We
> could
> setup another "lockable" shelf under the Crucial one, with its own
> shelf
> and its own combo lock (and own code) to allow people to use once
> they've popped onto Rack with a request to setup a system. And also
> make
> that shelf small so that only low power embedded machines can get
> installed.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
> 
> 
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