[Rack] Ideas for the network rebuild

[Ben Kochie]

There are pluses and minuses to doing everything on the router.  The one 
downside is for the wifi and other stuff we'll have to setup a big bridge 
and use the router as a switch.  This is less good because all packets 
have to go through the router's CPU.  It's fairly reliable, but I would 
suggest getting the 8-port EdgeRouter Pro with the larger CPU (1ghz vs 
500mhz dual-core MIPS)

The big thing you're missing here again, is the fact that one of the most 
common problems on the NB network is DHCP server spoofing.  WPA on wifi 
and managed switch level filtering easily solves this with minimal 
complexity issues.  We can also enable spanning-tree to avoid edge network 
loops.

-ben

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Rubin Abdi wrote:

> Ben Kochie wrote on 2014-08-31 23:25:
>> 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.
>
> I've totally seen someone open the door to the closet, poke at a bunch
> of shit, plug in a cable somewhere, and see pony bounce off the network.
>
> I honestly believe that having a large-ish router with a bunch of ports
> out of the way is going to be way easier to manage and less prone to
> getting fucked with than a switch at hand reachable level.
>
> Ben: If you've got opinions about that then let's talk about it in
> person. <3
>
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
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