Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 18/12/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 18/12/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
As many of you would have seen, Lemmy 0.19 is out. I know many are upgrading and many (like lemmy.world) have said they will hold off until after Christmas. I will probably test it out this week and see how I go for time. The pictrs 0.5 release hasn't come out yet, and I'm keen to do that as it has many more options for the image cache (such as the option to not storing the cached images in full resolution forever). If that comes out soon we might do one update with both. But there will be a decent chunk of downtime, especially with the pictrs update. An hour maybe.
And in other news I decided I probably need a network switch for home, as I'm running things on wifi that should be on ethernet because I have no more ports in the router.
I searched up switches, saw the top result cost $1,500, and suddenly realised I have no idea what I'm doing.
Anyone got suggestions? Does a switch create it's own network or can I bridge it to the existing one?
Hey - i've worked as a networking engineer for the last 15 odd years, so can probably assist :)
To give a good recommendation it'd help to know what stuff you have at home, how many devices, how far apart are they etc and what they are etc? Is it spread around the house, or mostly one room; and if the latter, do you have, or have room for a rack (of any size)?
There's all sorts of things a switch can do, it can be a Layer 3 switch and so do its own network/routing, or be a lot dumber and just extend a network you already have. It really depends what you buy & what you're plugging it into, and then how you end up configuring it.
Maybe for a bit of context for where i'm coming from, here's a rough description of my setup:
I have a couple of wireless access points, and a handful of network video cameras. Then, the usual domestic stuff - laptops, tablets, phones, tvs. After that, the less usual stuff, an unRaid box, a handful of raspberry Pis, a cluster of little EliteDesk Minis, and a bunch of esp32 based sensors.
For me, with the cameras & access points, it made sense to have something that was PoE capable. And because of the variety of things I have I wanted to be able to securely segment them at layer 3. I also wanted to be able to access stuff remotely so needed something that could work as a firewall as well. And I didn't want to pay any annual license fees or anything else, plus was on the bandwagon already.
So my network is quite simple, a UniFi UDM Pro, plus a USW 16. I have it in a small comms rack that sits under a desk as the only longish device is the unRaid box nothing else is deeper than a half depth on a normal rack.
Current setup:
This is just the stuff I'd like over ethernet. Currently everything is together in the TV cabinet (except one of the mesh access points) but probably ideally the desktop stays with the TV and the rest are parked somewhere more out of sight.
In your other comment you also mentioned cameras, we currently have none but I like the look of that setup where it messages you that a car just pulled into your driveway or a person is at your door, etc. Frigate stuff. So it would be good to future proof for that sort of thing too!
Edit: Oh one thing to add, I have a spare ISP router. Can it be used as a switch?