My home network is made up of two desktop machines and a laptop. The two desktops are on all the time, the laptop is primarily used when I want to sit in front of the TV and work, or in bed!
The machines are:
- desktop.my.flat
This is my ex-desktop machine which is now running as a backup machine in case something happens to the primary machine which replaced it.
It contains 160Gb of disk storage, 1Gb of memory and was bought as a bare bundle from Novatech.
In terms of services it is primarily used for remote backups, proxy for apt-get (using approx) and for my girlfriend to use for email/web-surfing.
- mine.my.flat
This is my desktop machine which I use for development, etc.
It contains 320Gb of storage, 1Gb of memory and is a 64-bit host running Xen.
Again this was purchased as a bare bundle from Novatech, and was finished off with an ATI Radeon Extreme AX300SE graphics card.
- lappy.my.flat
This is a generic low-end Dell laptop with 512Mb of RAM, and 40Gb of disk space.
My internet gateway is an 8 port Linksys FEFSR81 router, it is small, quiet, blue, and mostly reliable.
The machines are setup as a flat C class network, or in CIDR notation a /24.
- domain name:
- IP ranges:
- 192.168.1.1-99
- 192.168.1.100-199 : Xen instances.
- 192.168.1.200-254
- DHCP leases for guests/random use.
The network diagram looks like this:
