Re: basic server

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

setting up a remote link accross wrt's is easy with dd-wrt

openwrt is fine as well, but you have to actually set things via nvram,
dd has a similar web interface to the normal linksys firmware so it
makes it easy to get in and do what you need to do


i was doing some experimentation with bouncing a connection through 4 of
them all over the air and it still worked.  not sure it would deal with
a load all that gracefully (WDS is kind of a hack and spanning tree
sucks as a wireless traffic routing protocol), but it was definately
cool to play with.

honestly though you are much better off with running the copper if you
are in a house.  way more reliable, much better throughput, much lower
latency.

Casey


Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:47 -0600, hbrhodes wrote:
>   
>> if i were able to get up to one of the meetings, would you guys be able 
>> to help me or teach me while i attempt doing it, set up a basic server 
>> so i can keep a computer in the basement that i would store files on 
>> without worrying about losing files if i format the upstairs computer?
>>     
>
> Bentley,
>
> You don't have to haul yourself all the way up here for something this
> simple. All you need to do is set up a machine with lots of hard drive
> space as a file server. If you set up both NFS and Samba, you'll be able
> to mount bulk drive space to any other system in your house. That's an
> excellent to back up a system before doing a fresh NFS install. I've
> archived more than a hundred ISO images on such a machine.
>
> The "hard" part will be the upstairs-downstairs connection. If you
> already have a hole in the floor, that's one thing. Long Cat5/6 runs
> work, but they're almost always unsightly somewhere along the path.
> Steve and I have an alternative that uses a pair of Linksys WRT54GS
> routers to create a wireless link to a remote system. If you're
> interested, I'll send you the instructions. Unfortunately Steve found
> another gear near the end of the setup process and pulled away faster
> than I could take notes. What we have is maybe 95% complete.
>
> --Doc
>
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