Names and numbers
We use the DNS to map names to numbers. There is a Bind DNS server running on empire to provide this service to routers, PCs and other devices deployed in the Systems and Networking Lab. We use numbers from the VUW address range, 130.195.4.128/25 and RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets to number devices in the labs as follows:| Description | DNS zone | IPv4 addresses | IPv6 addresses | VLAN |
| Servers | nwen.ecs.vuw.ac.nz | 130.195.4.128/25 | 404 | |
| Desktops | nwen.ecs.vuw.ac.nz | 404 | ||
| Management | 172.22.3.0/24 | 3 | ||
| PXEboot | 172.22.4.0/24 | 4 | ||
| VUWIX | 172.22.5.0/24 | 5 | ||
| Student Net 1 | 172.22.11.0/24 | 11 | ||
| Student Net 2 | 172.22.12.0/24 | 12 | ||
| Student Net 3 | 172.22.13.0/24 | 13 | ||
| Student Net 4 | 172.22.14.0/24 | 14 | ||
| Student Net 5 | 172.22.15.0/24 | 15 |
Loading Soekris routers
LoadingVoyage- Voyage version of PXE Server - this should be close to our setup
- Building a PXE Install Server - we need our own version of this document
Monitoring and backup tools
Network Laboratory Rancid Rancid monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes. Mac specific version of how to set up RANCID/WEBCVS http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/RANCID-Howto.htmlNetwork Laboratory Munin Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Hugin and Munin are the ravens of the Norse god king Odin. They flew all over Midgard for him, seeing and remembering, and later telling him. "Munin" means "memory".
Network Laboratory Smokeping Smokeping keeps track of your network latency
Network Laboratory Torrus
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