We had a big storm come through overnight and I thought it expedient to turn off the power to the rack. I also turned off power to the desk, but I have that back on now. I am realizing that There are a number of things that I am doing that do not require the activity of having the rack equipment on all the time. So I am wondering what things I can do if I have the rack equipment turned off.
Now that I have turned the rack power back on, I note that my laptop was running on wifi and not a connection to my HomeLab. That is not a problem until I do HomeLab configuration or maintenance items that require me to be inside of certain vlans. I cant get inside those vlans without the router in the rack being powered up and my laptop connected via the server vlan. There are a number of rules that allow me to do this. I also notice that my monitor group is not active unless they are powered on. Right now I have a managed switch on the ledge outside of the rack and the table that allow multiple connections from the living room, table, and rack. I think I might modify the network:
- place an Edgerouter-X on the ledge
- connect a double WAN to the Server vlan and to the FLINT2 vlan
- the third connection would be to the laptop Ethernet port
- the remaining 2 ports could connect to the management vlan and the laptop vlan
- I might have to set up the server vlan port to also use the management vlan and others; haven't decided yet
- start working up an Edgerouter-12p to take the place of the ER-X and the switch on the ledge; haven't decided yet on how to set it up
- It should have the function of the ER-X
- It should provide some of the function of the managed switch
- Could this replace the Edgerouter-12 that is in the rack itself? In other words, do I need the router to be in the rack?
- I do have the server in the rack and could set some of the LXC containers to be routers in and of themselves, so that would work.
