Draw your home network!

[CrAz3D]

Then why is there a cable to them?...are they just on the internet that way w/no local file sharedness?

[shout]

There is a cable, but it does not work. There is nothing that works. I posted about it but apperently it was deleted.

[quasi-modo]

[QwertyMonster]

quasi-modo, that meteor coming to the earth will not happen. 

But dude, thats gotta be some good detail. I this one is in for a winning of... something..

[quasi-modo]

It's not a comet... it's a crazed meteor. http://quasi-ke.servebeer.com/display.aspx?file=endofworld.swf

[Mangix]

lol haha. but think of the humor. also this is shown somewhere is Stealth's files on cold-chaos.com

[Blaze]

http://quasi-ke.servebeer.com/pics/network.gif

As soon as I saw the earth I started laughing and laughing and laughing. Don't stop dishing out stuff like that.

[quasi-modo]

http://quasi-ke.servebeer.com/pics/network.gif

As soon as I saw the earth I started laughing and laughing and laughing. Don't stop dishing out stuff like that.

[Newby]

I'm a cheater. I used Visio!

http://newbyproductions.net/images/Network.png

[quasi-modo]

Why the heck are your networks so damn complicated. You guys are daisy chaining all of this stuff but you are not even using all of the ports on the root router.

[tA-Kane]

Yeah... but there's a reason for me. The DSL modem is in the storage room... it splits off and goes to my room (where the servers are located, as wel as my computer), as well as goes downstairs. From my room, it goes from one hub to another hub so that one server and my computer is behind NAT while the other isn't. Downstairs, it goes to a hub where it splits off into two parts of the room -- we figured it'd be a crapload easier to have several hubs instead of dropping 500 feet of ethernet line just so everyone can use one hub.

Since I'm also running Windows, I consider myself as requiring to be behind NAT

Isn't there an awful lot of NAT in your network? Doesn't that block off a lot of the usability of LAN functionality - local file sharing and that kind of thing? In most cases, I'd go for setting up NAT at the border between Internet and LAN, not having 3 different NAT:ed subsections on the LAN..

I would be totally into that... perhaps you'd mind sharing some thought?
1) I have a block of 8 static IPs (5 usable).
2) IP#1 is dedicated for the Mac server
3) IP#2 is dedicated for the NetBSD server
4) IP#3 is dedicated for dad's VPN
5) IP#4 is used for the Macs
The biggest reason my mom and I are piggy backing off of the NetBSD IP (via NAT) is because I don't have another router to use the fifth usable IP.
I think a lot of this could be solved a lot easier if I had two main routers (an 8-port for my room, since I plan on eventually bringing the other three RS/6000 machines on the network somehow, and a second 8 port for downstairs), but they would have to support having multiple public IPs, since three of the IPs are already dedicated for specific uses.
The fewest NAT sections I could have without using a crapload of wire would be two, since the first NAT is in my room (upstairs), and the second is pretty much on the opposite end of the house (and downstairs).

[quasi-modo]

That is why we went wireless... we did not feel like stringing up cable to go to the other side of the house (diagonally). My mom got a laptop after we went wireless.

[tA-Kane]

I've not had very good results with any form of wireless. I don't know if it's the range or the layout of the house or what, but it doesn't work well for my setup. My mom is the only one that still uses it, and she still gets drops every few hours or so.

Besides, I would take wired over wireless anyday, just for the added security.

[hismajesty]

My moms computer is connected wirelessly to the router in my room, and she gets drops every few minutes that last anywhere from seconds to days. Cox said the router should not be above the other computer, but it's really not feasible to move it.

[Newby]

Why the heck are your networks so damn complicated. You guys are daisy chaining all of this stuff but you are not even using all of the ports on the root router.

The computers are upstairs. The router is downstairs. There's no way I'm drilling a hole in the ground.