Subj : Network
To   : Anyone
From : Spectre
Date : Fri May 27 2022 04:18:00

I think its getting near time to rebuild my network here... I have a variety
of "units" mostly switches/routers that would suit rack mount but they don't
have anywhere near the width for a regular rack nor do I have one.

Thinking about putting together a timber frame to mount this stuff in,
probably take Wifi duties off the current router and some of the switch
duties off it too.  The present router has always been underwhelming, the ISP
supplied TP-LINK, I think when loaded it gets bogged down.

Not sure you can still get standalone Access Points, at least I haven't seen
one in a long time, and as usual won't want to be forking a lot of money out
for it... Or perhaps just a better router full stop. Shrug...

I'm going to need to decide what to do with my linux box too.. I'm inclined
not to mess with it, but it won't compile fail2ban... and that would be nice
to add without having to add even more latency in running it on a system in
the middle. I s'pose I could turn the router into a dummy, and just run a
complete linux firewall instead, but I'm not sure my skill set still covers
that particularly well. And it'll have to be handled CLI... no gui on any
linux systems here. :)

Spec


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