whats your network/home lan setup?

[idea]

just looking to see what people are doing these days. i'll go first...

cable internet -> wireless router

1- wired winxp/slackware box
1- wireless winxp laptop

 

[joey2k]

My setup basically the same as yours, idea.

DSL (768/128) hooked up to Linksys 802.11b/4-port switch router
1 WinXP wired workstation
1 Win98 wireless laptop

PPTP VPN to office in my parents house using PopTop.

Idea, what type of wireless do you run? Are you satisfied with the security? I'm paranoid with 802.11b so I setup a monthy key rotation.
Do you run ZoneAlarm?

-- Joel

 

[n0cmonkey]

DSL to Firewall to wired machines (currently 2) and wireless iBook.

 

[Grant]

DSL to LInksys Befsr41

Laptop (winxp pro) to Linksys
Toshiba Magnia SG10 to Linksys

2 clients (winxp pro) to SG10
1 Server (windows.net server 2003) to SG10
1 client (Win 98se) to SG10

 

[rw120555]

DSL connected to Netgear RP334 Router (has built-in homepna support) which also connects to 8 port switch, all in attic

3 wired computers in Attic home business office

Another crummy old wired computer that acts as dedicated print server for a laser and a color printer

3 wired computers on other floors

2Netgear ME102 Waps -- one connected via wire, another connected through Homepna (Using Netgear PE102 Ethernet/Homepna bridge)

2 laptops that connect wirelessly or else get plugged in to wired network

We used to use Hompna much more but got wired connections when we remodeled our attic

The # of machines is a little ridiculous, but most are hand me downs or bought used cheap from Dell. Other than me, most of the computer users have fairly modest needs.

 

[ScottMac]

Cable modem to a PIX and LinkSys, to VLANs on a Cisco 2950T, to:

"Computer Room"
Cisco 2950 w/ Gig link to the central closet
Dual 933 / RedHat
2.4G / NET2003-RC2
1G P3 / XP Pro
Dual 600M P3 / Win2K Server
Dual 360 Sparc Ultra 60 / Solaris 9
Junk Misc boxes (DOS, LINUX, whatever)

Bedroom
1 Gig P3 / XP Pro

Main Level
Dual Xeon 2.0G / XP Pro
Dual 1 G P3 / Win2K
Laptop Dell 8100 1.4 P#
(OLD) Laptop Dell Latitude 133 /WIN98

Downstairs
Laptop Inspiron 266 / XP pro

Cisco Practice Rack

Fore 200BX
Fore ASX200 BX
Fore LE 155 (copper 155 / OC12 uplinks)
Powerhub 7000

Various consumer grade hubs/ switches / routers

"My Live-in Lab"

FWIW

Scott

 

[JackMDS]

DSL coming into SpeedStream Wireless Router.

Three Wired computers on the Router. (XP Pro, XP Home, Win98SE).

Wireless Laptop with PCMCIA Card..

iPaq PDA with Wireless CF.

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Second wing of the house.

D-Link 900AP+ acting as a repeater for the SpeedStream Router.

Repeater dispensing Signal to 2 Desktops with USB Wireless Clients.

Next Project: Waiting for Tablet PC prices to come down.

 

[Ordo1999]

SMC Barricade 8 port router (it isnt acting as a dhcp server)
all ports are being activley used.

All cabling in the house is behind the walls, and have jacks in the walls. The cabling is all cat5e.

The Windows 2000 Server box is the domain controller, dns server, wins server, print server. It is also running Active directory for the domain also.
http://www.binarydreams.us/images/layoutnow.jpg
*note I need to fix the image so it dosnt say my router is acting as the dhcp server....

 

[MysticLlama]

Mucho less than ScottMac... unless you count my outside connection which I don't *personally* own.

1500/384 DSL -> Cisco PIX 501 -> My workstation
Cisco PIX 501 -> Orinoco WaveLAN 802.11 -> Wife's computer and the laptop
Cisco PIX 501 -> My G4 Tower

Don't have my 24 port switch installed in my new house yet because I've only got the four computers plugged in at the moment.

I just picked up a 12 port patch panel that I'm going to wire in, I already installed a wiring box in the closet where the AP is installed, and it runs downstairs where I terminated it on a keystone jack for the time being. It's an old house and I have to run some phone lines and cable jacks anyways, so I'm trying to centralize it all.

The Cisco 501 has two IPsec tunnels that are up full-time. One goes to the 515E at my office, which then has about 40 workstations and 12 servers, the other tunnel goes to another PIX501 at my colo which connects to a private IP range for 7 webservers and 2 database servers.

There is also a permanent tunnel between the office and the colo, so it looks like a triangle right now, but I'm just getting started, there are several more connection points to go before it's one big happy network.

It's extremely handy having all of my work machines and webservers act like they are locally available on the network, I don't have to VPN in or out or anything, it's just on all the time, just ping the IPs, go to file shares, or remote desktop at any point. (And from the office to home the same way)

It's all protected by 168bit 3DES encryption as well.

My next step is getting my Win2k server box going and using RADIUS on the 501 and on the AP, and then playing with 802.1x for my wireless.

 

[Need4Speed]

RR cable on Smoothwall Red

Firewall (smoothwall):
P133
64mb Ram
2gb hdd

Mail Server (redhat):
Smoothwall Orange
p166
128mb Ram
6gb hdd

Web/Ftp Server (redhat):
Smoothwall Orange
Cellery 433
256mb Ram
120gb hdd

Game Box (winxp):
Smoothwall Green
AMD 2400+
512PC3200
40Gb hdd (10kscsi)

Game Console (win2k Kernel):
Smoothwall Green
xbox - modded
64mb Ram
10Gb Hdd

Development Box (slackware):
Smoothwall Green
Proliant 2500
Dual 200PPro
128mb Ram
4x4.3SCSI Raid

Laptop (win2k)
Smoothwall Green:
P3-750
256mb Ram
40gb hdd

 

[azev]

Hi scott, can u hook me up with how to publish exchange server behind pix 501 ?? PAT and NAT are so confusing !

 

[skyking]

Cable modem,
Firewall/router = 486 w/evergreen technology 120mhz chip, 32mb of fast page ram, 1.2 gig seagate, freebsd 4.5.
A 5 port switch for the faster stuff, an 8 port 10/100 hub for the rest.
Freebsd server, 4.7 stable, running apache 2.0, samba, bind 9.
Some workstations scattered around.
I just pulled in 9 runs of cat5e under the house on Sunday, with keystone jacks, caddy fasteners throught the drywall, etc.

 

[idea]

I'm not sure how to test security, so I'm really not sure how secure my 802.11b is. I do know the router only acknowledges "enabled" nics, and i have 128bit wep. i haven't changed my key since i got it, but i probably should.

 

[BarryAZ]

I have a more complicated set up -- I do networking support for my client base so in one room I have four servers:

NetWare 6.0
NetWare 4.2
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Professional -- Proxy Server (WinProxy 4.0).

I have several test workstations (Win98SE, Win2K, WinXP) in that room (yes it runs warm in there).

The Proxy Server is connected to a cable modem on one NIC and to a 16 port switch on the other NIC.

The house is wired -- so my primary workstation is in a separate room, I have a printer in that room connected to the network via a Print server.

My wife has an office downstairs -- with wiring to the network for her workstation, and a separate line for her print server.

We have conduit run to the TV room and to the bedroom as well. There is a notebook running in the TV room -- so we can do work while watching TV and can do the internet from there as well.

 

[Fuzznuts]

Originally posted by: BarryAZ
I have a more complicated set up -- I do networking support for my client base so in one room I have four servers:

NetWare 6.0
NetWare 4.2
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Professional -- Proxy Server (WinProxy 4.0).

I have several test workstations (Win98SE, Win2K, WinXP) in that room (yes it runs warm in there).

The Proxy Server is connected to a cable modem on one NIC and to a 16 port switch on the other NIC.

The house is wired -- so my primary workstation is in a separate room, I have a printer in that room connected to the network via a Print server.

My wife has an office downstairs -- with wiring to the network for her workstation, and a separate line for her print server.

We have conduit run to the TV room and to the bedroom as well. There is a notebook running in the TV room -- so we can do work while watching TV and can do the internet from there as well.

sounds like a man oafter my own heart i to support clients from home and back room currently consists of 2 RH 7.3 Boxes 3 Win2k srv boxes 1 RH 8 mail server 2 workstations both running XP and a cisco 2600 connected to an E1

As for heat i dont think i have ever closed the window in the 4 yrs ive been here gets a bit noisy when you are trying to sleep as well.

 

[MysticLlama]

Hey azev...

I would've PM'd you, but your PM's are off. I'll give you a hand with that PIX if you haven't figured it out yet, I just did an Exchange server here at the office last week behind the 515.

 

[faZZter]

Fixed Wireless (802.11B) from antenna into Linksys WET11 to D-Link DI-614+ to 3 wired PC's, Wireless signal to two more Linksys WET11 units (one for each ReplayTV and one also for X-Box live/Home MP3 server/storage) Also a wireless card for Dell laptop. Oh yeah and a Dell Access point in repeating mode. (when it works right)

 

[Jadow]

Cable Modem -> Linksys 4 port router -> 3 PC's using a Windows XP workgroup to share files / printers. Simple and effective!

 

[Anubis]

cable internet-> lynksys 4 port router-> lots of CAT 5 cable-> 4 computers 3 XP Pro, 1 2000

 

[MuffD]

Athlon xp1700 on XP (wired network)
P4 1.6 on XP (wired)
PIII 600 on Win2k (wired)
PIII 1.1 laptop on XP wireless

Toshiba cable modem and D-Link router w/ WAP.

 

[Nighthawk69]

1200/128 aDSL into SpeedStream 802.11b Wireless Router (4-port 10/100 switch)
Wired: Red Hat 7.3 Mail, File and once in a while, Game Server (Athlon Classic 600Mhz w/ 576MB PC133, 60GB HDD)
Wireless: Red Hat 8.0 / WinXP Pro Workstation (P4 1.8A @ 2610Mhz w/ 512MB DDR)
Wireless: Windows XP Workstation (Pentium 3 600Mhz w/ 384MB PC100)
Wireless: Windows 2000 Workstation (Celeron 400 w/ 96MB PC100)
Wireless: Windows 2000 Workstation (Athlon T-Bird 1.1Ghz w/ 128MB PC133)
Wireless: Sharp Zaurus (Netgear 802.11b CF Card)

 

[amdskip]

Cable to LInksys Befsr41

One computer in the family room and 2 drops ran upstairs to my room through the walls
Switch upstairs splitting up internet to as many computer as I have hooked up to my 4 por Belkin KVM.

 

[heartsurgeon]

cable modem attached to:
8 port linksys router attached to:
my office computer
networked laser printer/print server
daughter's computer
daughter's computer
5 port linksys switch attached to:
son's computer
wireless access point:
servicing my wife's computer

 

[BurnItDwn]

Cable Internet -> Linux Box (firewall, router, server) (redhat 7.1)
Linux Box -> 8 port switch
switch -> main Gaming/multimedia PC (w2k)
switch -> Second Gaming/multimedia PC (w2k and mandrake 9 dual boot)
switch -> Third Gaming/multimedia PC(w2k and redhat 7.2 dual boot)
switch -> New Server box ... haven't finnished setting it all up ... soon it will replace my old linux box as the firewall/router/server (Mandrake 9)
switch -> old 8 port Hub (in the other room)
Old 8 port Hub -> Sony Vaio Laptop (w2k and Mandrake 9 dual boot)
Old 8 port Hub -> Old powerbook Laptop (mac os 8.6)

 

[m2kewl]

cable modem --> hub --> pix501 --> internal lan

hub = attached to fw and ids
pix501 = 3 vpn links to work locations
internal lan = 2 servers, practice exchange cluster, main pc, aironet AP w/4 pcs