{"id":124,"date":"2007-03-12T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-03-12T22:19:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T06:19:43","slug":"new-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"New network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I <strong>finally <\/strong>put the Moon here onto a sound network footing.  I pay some phone company for 3 bits of Internet (8 addresses less one for broadcast and one for network number).  Until recently my desktop\/server has been also doing duty as a router\/firewall, meaning I really had 2 2-bit subnets each of 2 addresses.<\/p>\n<p>I actually used more of the address space by doing various bits of network black magic, which I don&#8217;t condone.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/servlet\/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&#038;childpagename=US%2FLayout&#038;cid=1133202177241&#038;pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper\">WRT54GL<\/a> wireless router and VLAN switch.  I&#8217;d burned Linux on a couple of these for work and decided it was a good piece of hardware to help straighten out what I laughingly called my network &#8220;architecture.&#8221;  We won&#8217;t go into the 10 Mb\/s hub that was still central to the thing.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the router came last week and I spent a few hours this week burning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwrt.org\">OpenWRT<\/a>  onto it and configuring it.  Now I have a sane network architecture that has the new router doing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proxy ARP to keep my DSL provider confused<\/li>\n<li>Firewall<\/li>\n<li>Single IP address on both sides of the firewall<\/li>\n<li>ssh access<\/li>\n<li>and a gratuitous use of cron and ntpclient to keep its date correct<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of that was rocket science, though it was good clean fun.  And I&#8217;m delighted to have a more orderly and sane network layout that lets me use an extra address and reboot my server without kicking anyone else off the LAN.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy with it I decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.usc.edu\/events.php?eventid=36\">share.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finally put the Moon here onto a sound network footing. I pay some phone company for 3 bits of Internet (8 addresses less one for broadcast and one for network number). Until recently my desktop\/server has been also doing duty as a router\/firewall, meaning I really had 2 2-bit subnets each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}