[chbot] Robotics club Internet, and spare PCs at BR05 radio club

[Mark Atherton]

Volker,

Four HP 8000 Elite, dual core, 3GHz (?) machines with Win7, 160GB HD, 
and 4G DDR3 RAM were delivered to BR05 last night, along with 22" 
monitors and keyboards.

Need to find a suitable 2nd NIC card, these are low profile, so not 
run-of-the-mill. Will have a dig around at MM.

Happy to donate a couple of 8 port 10/100 QOS switches, and some DIR-300 
APs. The 300s support 802.11b/g, with WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA/WPA2, so 
hopefully adequate. Attaching the DIR-300 WAN port in bridge mode to the 
2nd NIC card may be all we need to do to get our private AP running. 
This AP should go into storage when not being used by us.

We still need to get a couple more Ethernet ports at BR05 connected to 
the switch, also a suitable physical bench setup so we don't have to 
keep moving stuff around.

Finally, we need a combination padlock(?) for our new cupboard space.

Next Robotics meeting is 21st Sept 2015, so I only have one more Tuesday 
evening to get some of this stuff done, which is going to be very tight. 
Maybe we should plan to have the setup together by the following 
Robotics Meeting, which is 19 Oct 2015.

Nearly forgot, we should try and connect the PC to the projector...

Does your preferred OS need to be installed from scratch every time, or 
could you bring along a disk image and suitable disk image software in 
the hope we could load a per-installed disk image system on one of these 
machines ?

-mark

On 11/09/2015 10:49 a.m., Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Wed 09 Sep 2015 17:53:49 NZST +1200, Mark Atherton wrote:
>
> Thanks Mark for working on putting together a computer lab.
>
>> Also, wired internet, a suitable Ethernet switch, and possibly our
>> own wireless Access Point (only for Robotics use, put in storage
>> when not in use). There will be minimal fire-walling to the outside
>> world.
> The Ethernet switch would be useful if everyone wants to plug in at the
> same time. Used 100M switches should be cheap as dirt.
>
>> Volker has shown some interest in setting up an
>> Android-snoop-machine, so this is one possible use for a PC. Any
>> other applications ? Any other hardware required ?
> I have set this up at my place, but I didn't so far get the feeling that
> there was much interest in it. My first question would be who will be
> using it, because it takes a bit of setting up and obviously, no users,
> no point. The requirements would be:
>
> wifi AP. The phone must only be able to connect to this AP, and not
> to mobile data (which can't be intercepted outside of the phone easily).
> Configuration as required.
>
> Firewall/router, 2 Ethernet ports minimum. Above wifi AP must be
> connected on one, upstream Internet to the other. Also ability to
> connect a laptop etc to run the show.
>
> Software: I will only touch Linux or pfsense on the firewall (happy for
> anyone else to do otherwise). Preferably pfsense, it runs on anything
> freebsd runs on. This needs installing. Configuration is not a 5 minute
> job!
>
> My aim is to demonstrate above setup at a meeting, which is why I need
> unhindered Internet access. Last month I checked that it will be
> possible to do that at BR05.
>
> Volker
>