I’m kind of an odd person. In my house, I have a closet that serves as the central hub for all my networking. It’s sort of an odd hybrid of cheap IKEA utility shelves coupled with some rack mounted equipment.
I put “servers” in this closet too and serve files from this closet. Back in my university days, it was the “geek” thing to do: in fact it helped me tremendously during an advanced networking course as it meant I had my own in-house lab. Nowadays, it is more of a carry-over tradition. I have gone from a huge network of many servers to an array of embedded devices (WRT54GLs running OpenWRT) and one/two PCs running Linux. …Continue reading » Review of the Asus P5N-MX (LGA775) mainboard for use as a Linux File Server
