On 05/25/2012 11:18 AM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
Given that we're talking about wireless, are we talking about the old 802.11b/g, which does not scale well to large numbers of people, or are we talking about 802.11n, which was fundamentally redesigned in order to support more users? You're only going to get so far with the old wireless networks; at a certain point, there are diminishing returns with trying to widen your network capacity without also upgrading the physical medium. As far as my talk in August, I was considering talking about DNS and DHCP, and the fun things you can do with them in concert, including failover, all using open source tools. I am presently replacing my P133 firewall, as it is (finally) on its last legs, and I am doing all of that fun stuff now. -Tilghman
I, for one, would sincerely appreciate the DNS / DHCP presentation. Just yesterday I was looking at two additional projects: phpDNSadmin and phpDHCPadmin. Haven't gone beyond reading the abstracts. I tried to get phpLDAPadmin to work 8-9 months ago and suffered serious MEGO. Need LDAP (do I dare say NIS) also.
As for my current network challenge, the wireless portion is relatively small; could even be segmented to a separate subnet with a "bridge" / routing / gateway configuration. I've never had a reason to configure a network larger than a /24. As I said before, I don't really think I have a reason here yet either. I am annoyed at the number of fixed (static and dhcp reserved) IPs that fall within the dynamic address range. Why?
My new job has me trying to sip small quantities of knowledge from the firehose of systems I gotta keep going...
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