[Rack] Ideas for the network rebuild

[Rubin Abdi]

Ben Kochie wrote on 2014-09-01 01:20:
> 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.

https://imgur.com/gallery/XLVlmWw

-- 
Rubin
rubin at starset.net

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