Post your HOME networking setup!

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 16:58

Ok guys, curious to know how many of you have a crazy home networking setup!

Pics are all good (800x600 max though please chaps!), although some detail / explanation would be useful!

I'll start things off with mine:

Cisco Catalyst 2950-24 [10/100 Level 2]
3Com 4900 [100/1000 Level 3]
Nokia IP330 running PFSense
Linksys WRT-54G
Compaq Proliant DL360 [Dual [email protected], 2Gb RAM, 2x 146Gb in RAID1, Debian Etch / Windows Sever 2003 / CentOS]

Not in the picture:

Laptop, Windows desktop, Ubuntu desktop, Fileserver

Two 2048-bit encrypted OpenVPN connections to external networks, soon to be 3 when I get around to it.

OSPF dynamic routing implemented fully across all connected networks.

Each of the connected networks is running individual internal DNS which is held in secondary records for each of our servers, making things much easier.

Code:

debian-vm:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:59:81:E8
          inet addr:192.168.2.50  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe59:81e8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4910844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5070615 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1443043947 (1.3 GiB)  TX bytes:2200613734 (2.0 GiB)
          Interrupt:177 Base address:0x1080

tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:10.10.0.2  P-t-P:10.10.0.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1875594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1897036 errors:0 dropped:255 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:379762985 (362.1 MiB)  TX bytes:392911537 (374.7 MiB)

tun1      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:172.16.0.1  P-t-P:172.16.0.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:195273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:313355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:13642252 (13.0 MiB)  TX bytes:368227367 (351.1 MiB)

Code:

debian-vm:~# ip route list
10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.10.0.2
10.10.0.2 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
172.16.0.2 dev tun1  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.16.0.1
10.0.1.1 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 30
10.0.1.2 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.7.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.2.50
192.168.199.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.1.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.200.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.12.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.11.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.10.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.25.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
192.168.9.0/24 via 10.10.0.1 dev tun0  proto zebra  metric 20
default via 192.168.2.11 dev eth0

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 17:02

Nope, I work in a shop

All bought myself

Doesn't get hot enough to worry me, and the loudest thing there is the 4900 by a mile. Certainly not loud enough to bother my sleep

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 18:02

Its not a server, its a SCSI array

It has 12 18.2Gb SCSI disks in it.

I don't have the Nokia Firewall software installed on the IP330 so I don't know how difficult that is, but once you have PFSense (or any other firewall distro that has serial support) installed (which is a bit of a faff, if I'm honest) its fairly simple to configure.

The spec is fairly 'low' being about a 266MHz CPU but the RAM is upgradable and they are more than capable of routing my internet traffic at 100mbps wire-speed.

I use an IP440 elsewhere (also running PFSense) which is slightly more powerful and that handles two 100Mbit internet connections at 100% saturation without batting an eyelid.

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 18:05

quackers said:
Hmm interesting, i've never used any nokia kit only cisco pix 501's.

I aim to have one installed at home, once i can bag one cheap enough from the bay

Drop me an email (in sig). Might be able to help you.

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 19:19

Ah just looked at the email I have in my Trust, its out of date. The one in my sig is working a-ok though, get a lot of mail there. Will email you now...

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 21:01

S_D said:
Other than that what else would you need?

Simon

How about some more subnets? Perhaps some VOIP? VPN or two? OSPF?

DRZ · 8 Apr 2008 at 23:28

MarcLister said:
BGP is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bgp ?

Yes indeed

DRZ · 9 Apr 2008 at 14:10

Wardie said:
Also, what the managed switches and firewalls but standard cruddy routers?

I'd consider a decent router more important...

I don't find it a problem as it doesn't actually do much. I had an 871W and a 1760 too but I could achieve everything I wanted to do with that WRT54G which I had knocking about anyway, so I sold them both. The only thing the WRT-54G does in my setup is route to the internet, other than that it doesn't do any of my routing at all, thats what the L3 switch and debian box is for