I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I’m open for applications for the position of “nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages” now

Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected

  • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    At my (allmost 100 years old. Built in 1929) house there are two chimneys that are no longer in use, so I use them for cable runs. My server room is in yhe basement, so all of the wired stuff is there. From a PoE switch I have cables going into the chimney, going to each floor for powering access points.

    I’m sure that my kids will want wired network, so at that point I’ll replace the top floor AP with a switch, and use the associated chimney-cable as VLAN trunk instead.

    Right now my biggest annoyance is that I want to replace my ISPs router with something rack mounted. Their Tilgin router/modem is the only part of the network that is not compatible with a 19" rack.

    You can say what you want about Fortinet, but I kinda like them, and after replacing the work networks with cloud managed routers I have quite a few Fortigate 101E left over. If I keep them up to date I should be fine.

    My go-to switches are Aruba of various sorts. I have two 2930M and one 3810M. Also leftovers from work after going for something cloudanaged.