[H-GEN] Assistance with planning and setting up an ASDL based Linux home network.

[Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony']

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Andrew Pullin wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:41:07 +1000
> From: Andrew Pullin <andrew at hotspurbgc.com.au>
> To: Humbug General <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
> Subject: [H-GEN]  Assistance with planning and setting up an ASDL based
>     Linux home network.
> 
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
> [ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]
> 
> Hi All,
>     My dedicated phone line based Internet and Web server is killing me with
> data charges and lack of speed, so I am in the process of changing over to
> ASDL. I have had the luxury of 64 IP addresses to play with on my network to
> do such things as IP based Web Services, and hook up my numerous machines
> (so far a Server, a desktop, two laptops, two research machines, and
> hopefully soon a 4 node mini cluster).
> 
>     Unfortunately it looks like I may lose those IP addresses or be severely
> reduced to as few as one or two. This is a major pain as it will require a
> total reorganisation of the network configuration. It looks like I will have
> to do at least two things immediately 1. change over the IP based web sites
> to name based websites (not a major problem, but still a pain), and 2.
> change the whole network to a private network and do NAT on the server to
> get out.
> 
>     I have not decided which ISP to hook up to yet, but what I need is some
> assistance in planning what I need to do and how, so that when I do get a
> new ISP, the change over will be transparent to the Net Community and
> relatively painless to me. The web site I host is fairly active, and I
> cannot afford to be offline for any more than a few hours, and even then I
> prefer to go live with the new setup, and cutover without an interruption to
> the service.
> 
>     So, is anybody willing to help me out at the meeting to plan my new
> setup, and possibly end up spending a day helping me get my new system going
> over the next few weeks. I am willing to provide food, refreshments,
> transport if required, and friendship (these things are all negotiable) to
> anyone who can help out with the actual setup.
> 
>     I should be at the meeting on Saturday, unless my wife has planned
> something I don't know about yet. The planning will be more of an open
> discussion on what I can and can't do, and the best ways to go about it. I
> consider myself an Intermediate level Linux user (ie I don't claim to know
> it all, but I know more than a compleate newbie), and I have run my website
> and server for about 4 years now. If anyone is willing to help out, it would
> be much appreciated. I will probably let one of the committee know who I am
> and what I want if you want to track me down at the meeting (Hitcho or David
> Siekel because I know who they are) and I usually get to meetings at about
> 4pm and hang around until about 9pm.


Shouldn't be too hard to do provided you can overlap your connections by a 
week.  I've done this sort of things many of times before so just ask away 
sometime.  I won't be at this meeting but should finally be back on the 20th 
(if there is a meeting then).

- -- 
Snowy "Snowpony" Angelique Cerise Maslov -- http://snowy.org/email.signature
PGP (GnuPG) fingerprint = 5280 6EBC D281 A9D2 564B  E274 B2EC 54C3 8325 CECD
Email not addressed/CCd to snowy at snowy.org BOUNCE.  READ URL for disclaimer!
   "Ignorance killed the cat, sir. Curiosity was framed." ---C.J. Cherryh
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/

iD8DBQE/0IrKsuxUw4Mlzs0RApVAAJ97dWrj96BnMLclw8HDDwjBNCWTFwCfY2AJ
bLNH0AVQjqqre8jFcDAEqaY=
=sm4u
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


_______________________________________________
General mailing list
General at lists.humbug.org.au
http://lists.humbug.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general