{"id":562,"date":"2009-02-09T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-02-09T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:03:28","slug":"re-routing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2009\/02\/re-routing\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-routing"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I\u2019ve wanted to do for a while was move the firewall\/router and minor web sites served from an old Pen\u00adti\u00adum 3 in the base\u00adment to a more mod\u00adern solu\u00adtion. I\u2019ve blogged some of the jour\u00adney, start\u00ading with the motiv\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a> and mov\u00ading through the todo list<\/a>. Yes\u00adter\u00adday was the day for the big switch.<\/p>\n

After a couple of hours twid\u00addling this and that, get\u00adting rid of spare cables, and vacu\u00adum\u00ading the backs of com\u00adputers that sel\u00addom get this treat\u00adment, we now have a hard\u00adware firewall\/router<\/a> and some minor web sites powered by a Sun Ultra 20 OpenSol\u00adar\u00adis<\/a>, rather than rely\u00ading on an old Pen\u00adti\u00adum 3 doing all of that. It\u2019s amaz\u00ading how much faster the minor sites load on a sys\u00adtem with a decent amount of memory!<\/p>\n

In oth\u00ader words, we\u2019ve now gone from <\/p>

\"old
old fire\u00adwall + web\u00adsite server<\/figcaption><\/figure> and
\"wires\"
wires<\/figcaption><\/figure> to
\"new
new web\u00adsite server<\/figcaption><\/figure> (Pho\u00adtos by Tim Bray)\n

I still have to set up ddcli\u00adent<\/em> or some\u00adthing sim\u00adil\u00adar to inform DynDNS<\/a> when our IP<\/span> address changes, and there are some oddit\u00adies, such as the Sol\u00adar\u00adis box not broad\u00adcast\u00ading its host\u00adname to the router which I want to track down. For some reas\u00adon the Sol\u00adar\u00adis box did\u00adn\u2019t start the Eth\u00ader\u00adnet con\u00adnec\u00adtion prop\u00aderly on reboot, but I don\u2019t yet know wheth\u00ader that was a ran\u00addom occur\u00adrence or some\u00adthing that I have to pay atten\u00adtion to. Still, things are work\u00ading, at least until our next power out\u00adage. Wheth\u00ader it works past that depends on wheth\u00ader the router moves around the IP<\/span> addresses it assigns, which would mean the IP-based for\u00adward\u00ading not for\u00adward\u00ading to the right place. I may end up installing dd wrt<\/em> or some\u00adthing sim\u00adil\u00adar on the fire\u00adwall (although it appears the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar one I have does\u00adn\u2019t sup\u00adport dd wrt<\/em> itself), but for the time being I\u2019m run\u00adning the ori\u00adgin\u00adal soft\u00adware and it seems to do the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I\u2019ve wanted to do for a while was move the firewall\/router and minor web sites served from an old Pen\u00adti\u00adum 3 in the base\u00adment to a more mod\u00adern solu\u00adtion. I\u2019ve blogged some of the jour\u00adney, start\u00ading with the motiv\u00ada\u00adtion and mov\u00ading through the todo list. Yes\u00adter\u00adday was the day for the \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cRe-rout\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,20,74],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firewall","tag-opensolaris","tag-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}