[Rack] Ideas for the network rebuild

[Ben Kochie]

Noisebridge has had managed switches since the beginning.  I don't know 
what's wrong with them in your mind, they're trivial to use.  We've never 
had a problem with people plugging things into the wrong port.

The only difficulty we have is dying hardware due to the enviornmental 
issues.

-ben

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Rubin Abdi wrote:

> http://0.starset.net/screenies/20140831222038-Selection.png
>
> This is a really ugly diagram and doesn't give too much detail, but it's
> the easiest way to convey what I'm thinking.
>
> I don't believe Noisebridge is mature enough to have managed switches,
> it's just too much of a headache to deal with and someone will
> inevitably plug something into the wrong port.
>
> The idea behind this design is simply designating ports off of the
> edgerouter for each zone and arbitrarily assigning them a VLAN. The VLAN
> idea can also be bounced down to the Unifi wifi and provide some special
> "Noisebridge Infrastructure" network to also get on there wirelessly.
> Minotaur and Pony are both running Debian and can get onto special VLANs
> on their own (and they'll need to to grab a public IP address).
>
> If we don't have any devices that we consider as infrastructure, which
> are wired and don't run linux (i.e. devices that cannot be configured to
> touch a VLAN), we can honestly get away with just one large stupid
> unmanaged switch.
>
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
>