Today was a difficult day but a very interesting one. My primary goal was to implement the network design I draw few weeks ago.. My job was :
* change the layer1 (the wire..) [1] * change the Cisco 3550 Intervlan routing configuration [2] * setup one netbsd as bridge * setup another on netbsd as router (with 5 network devices) * change the Cisco 3000 series configuration [3] * setup dynamic routing (with ospf) in all netbsd/Cisco and few others one router
[1]: I hate all hardware/layer1 (or 8, aka the users) stuff. I prefer stay in my chair in front of my beautiful debian background (the ayo's one) while I'm setting up all layer3-7 stuff via telnet or ssh.
[2]: 3550 with EMI IOS are very powerfull. I like such toys :p
[3]: It's the first and last time I buy a fucking VPN concentrator (at least the 3000 series) There is not a good OS, only a fucking menu based command line tool. I'm not able to tweaking the tunnel network configuration like the loopbackp interface for tunnels, the MRU/MTU negociation, etc, etc.. The next time, i'll buy a good router (maybe with the hardware encryption card) and a real (I)OS.
Tomorrow will be a good day too, I need to setup all firewall rules (on both NetBSD) and the IDS. Actually, I know a little snort (I ever wrote some rules) but I never used it in a (real) production envionment.
10hPM: I'm writing this geeklog entry with mozilla which comes as the default web browser in Solaris 10 (running in my Ultra 60 :). Finally, I thought it will be more slower. Just take a look in the following screenshot :
Solaris seem very cool. But, even if java desktop system seem very nice, I'm not sure it's easy to customize the desktop istself. Anyway I need to use it for few days (or even weeks) before I can say something definitive.