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Network Construction Lab

Objective

Take a bunch of random bits of hardware (switches, Raspberry Pi computers, and servers) to build out a network from scratch to illustrate what goes into building a network. The project will cover topics like:

  • the process of laying out a network
  • coming up with names for the devices
  • devising an IP addressing scheme
  • firewalls
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • VLAN
  • VPN
  • virtual machines
  • routing

Draft Design

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Concepts & Terms

During the course of the project, a number of concepts and terms were mentioned in passing that could not be covered in detail because of the very short amount of time available during the Excelerator program. This section is a list of those items along with definitions and/or pointers to further information.

BookStack

BookStack is an open source, opinionated (it has a pre-defined organizational structure based on shelves, books, chapters, and pages) wiki application that you can host on your own server. It is great for collecting documentation and notes, and is the current application that runs the infrastructuresquad.com site. More information available at: https://www.bookstackapp.com/

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