Wed, 09 Aug 2006

Field Day Network Diagrams

I have a Layer 3 diagram for our 2006 Field Day in October. It is currently still in design because there are a couple of unknowns for the segments between Gasworks and our Alki/Magnolia side. I suspect that most of the remaining details can be hammered out during tonight's hacknight, as the owner of this "missing link" is still researching several of our connectivity options. This is okay, because I am going to treat his network as transit.

It is also looking like Internet access is more and more of a reality. While we will not rely or plan on having this service available, I am certain that a lot of attendees would not mind actual internet access.

As you can see above, both Alki and Magnolia will be linked at sort of a condensed "Core" layer. The blank spot near the top is our edge with our city-wide transit / internet provider. Gasworks will have its own condensed edge/core/access layers. All access layers will be flat, and a combination of wireless and wired LAN. The actual topology of this is not important until we have 100% commitment of all hardware pieces. And even then, it can be a bit dynamic.

Addressing is situated so a simple 10.128.0.0/22 can be advertised on the Magnolia/Alki side, reducing the amount of routes our transit provider will have to carry. 10.128.4.0/22 is the gasworks side. Link addresses use /30's out of the bottom part of each CIDR block.

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