My home network
Authors
School of Computer Science and Engineering
UNSW,
Sydney 2052, Australia
Abstract
The typical home computer user needs services for network connectivity, email, backup, file sharing, phone, and chat/instant messaging. They may also want media streaming, or home automation services. Once upon a time, if you signed up with an ISP they'd give you connectivity and email; the other services you'd either have to hack up yourself, or buy from a commercial provider.
I shall describe my home network setup, that has been developed over the last forty years or so, and that provides:
- LDAP, DNS, DHCP , and firewall
- email (see last year's talk)
- File and media sharing, via NFS and via a web app
- Backup, local and offsite, for the servers themselves, and for laptops
- Home phone
- Shared calendaring
- documentation to allow other people to fix things if I'm not around
- Development environment for embedded hobby work
- email alerts to me when something goes wrong.
I'll include some information about the evolution of the system to get to where it is now.
Right now, the system is stable, and takes almost no maintenance.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{Chubb_25,
address = {Adelaide, SA, AU},
author = {Peter Chubb},
booktitle = {Everything Open},
month = jan,
title = {My Home Network},
year = {2025}
}
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