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A technical tour of the internal Etterstad infrastructure. This is kind of geeky....

Network infrastructure

The internal network physically consists of one main hub in the server/wiring closet, where the main link into the appartment is terminated. The backbone switch is here. The office has its own switch connected to several of the main desktop machines for faster and more reliable connection. Connecting the laptops is a wireless 802.11g network.
Laptops then hook directly into the WiFi.
There is one address range in use, but two domains (one each for the two occupants).

The wireless are WPA encrypted to gain security to at least some degree. The wireless base station is running the Tomato Linux version.

The Internet connection is through a 6.5/2 Mbps cable modem line provided by Get.

Servers

Melk (VIA C3 Eden 600MHz (fanless) MiniITX w/FreeBSD 6.0)
Firewall and router
Tequila (Sun Blade 100. Solaris 10 - 896MB RAM)
Backup- (Bacula), news- (Leafnode) and proxy-server (Sun Java System Web Proxy).
Master DNS-server for one domain and secondary for the other.
Mailserver (Postfix/imap) for one network. Surveillance/monitoring of the whole network.
Secondary NIS server.
Backup DHCP server.
Wenzangu (Pentium 4 3 GHz HT w/Solaris Express/Build 79)
Main server for one network (Postfix, Dovecot imap, DNS, fileserver etc).
DHCP- and (master) NIS-server for both networks.
Local CD rip archive and streaming server.
Katiti (Apple Mac Mini PowerPC 1.4 GHz, MacOS X 10.4)(Tiger)
Living room entertainment station (Streaming server, CD/DVD player)
Using bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the TV as a monitor.

Workstations

Saft
Non-brand Intel Pentium 4 3000 MHz w/Windows XP
Paploo
HP/Compaq nc8000, Windows XP and SuSE 9.2
SunRay-1
SunRay 1 Running off Wenzangu using SunRay Server Software 3.1
This one is a treat - even when the server crashes the session is restored
Zawadi
MacBook Intel Duo 2GHz. MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Solaris Express (Nevada)
Anga
Mac G5 Dual PowerPC 1.8 GHz. MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Chaka
Sun Ultra 20 2.4 GHz dual core AMD Opteron.
This box is set up in a triple boot configuration as follows:
As Chaka: Solaris Express (Nevada)
As Rafiki: Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
As Brus: FreeBSD 6.0
Zahama
Toshiba Tecra M5 Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz. Solaris Express (Nevada)

Retired machines

Kakao
Digital Alpha 1000A 5/400 w/NetBSD 1.6
Asante
Digital DECstation 5000/20 (MAXine) (20 MHz R3000 MIPS CPU) w/NetBSD 1.6
Ndege
Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E-6150 Celeron 450 MHz laptop. Windows XP and SuSE 9.0
Here is a description to help you install Linux on it
X-kwenda
NCD Explora Pro X-terminal Mainly running off Wenzangu
Ultramoderne
Sun Blade 100. Solaris 10 with extra (faster) IDE-disks and 768 MB RAM
For more info on this UNIX workstation, go here
Boza
Mac Powerbook PowerPC 1GHz. MacOS X 10.3 (Panther)
Rafiki/Brus
Unbranded Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (HyperThreading)
Here are some old pictures from the previous location