Hi,
Before buying a router, we should have a set of requirements.
I would like to have a go at raspberry pi colo this year and have negotiated us some (slightly tainted) IPv4 space for this. This will come to us via a VPN. We also have an IPv6 allocation that we can announce via remote BGP peering, either via the hackerspace ASN or via my ASN depending on whether the hackerspace wants to pay for its ASN (these recently became chargeable). We also have a 44 net allocation for MS0SCZ that we can announce via remote BGP peering.
I would also like to complete the setup of the RADIUS proxy so we can get an eduroam SSID up and running on the WAPs.
I will likely set these things up using an OpenBSD router, I haven’t decided the specific hardware yet.
These are also very project centric requirements and shouldn’t fuck with our main general purpose internet so unless we have good reasons we should learn from previous experiences and have this be a separate router, downstream of the main router. Given the outside connection is 80Mbps, a router on a stick would still be able to max that out.
Thanks,
Iain.
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, at 9:38 PM, Alex Johnstone wrote:
Based upon my networking journey at home I have a couple of thoughts/questions:
* Does the hackspace need vlans and various things? I want to say the network was just simplified as no-one knew how it all worked(?)
* What about a linux/*BSD box instead? Probably there's a suitable one about, plus a NIC. Either install an appliance or go vanilla.
Alex
Can we get a better router to replace the toys'r'us we have now with a Mikrotik-5009ug
£209.99 inc VAT
Then we can do multiple vlans, rate-limiting fancy firewall mangle rules etc :)
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