[tech] Cisco 2900

[Grahame Bowland]

Hi guys

We now have a Cisco 2900 in the middle of our network; 130.95.13.2.
I've got the latest code in /tftpboot on hydra, I'll look at updating 
it tommorow. We'll plug morwong and the other important things into 
it; should be cute as we can monitor ports and do MRTG graphs.

It has several VLANs configured. '2' is Clubroom, '3' is Machine Room 
and '4' is Guild. Eventually we will plug the guild uplink into it, which 
will allow us to reconfigure the network around a failed hydra remotely.

It only talks ISL at the moment, I doubt even the latest code will do 
dot1q. So for now hydra still has all the ethernet interfaces. Perhaps 
UCS will have a better spare switch in the future - the accelar could 
also be lent, but it looked like too much pain.

Also, whoever owns the 7500 in the machine room please do something with 
it or I'm going to make it into UCC router. It's but a PCMCIA flash card 
away... and I can't see any reason a Linux box would do a better job for 
UCC's needs. And the 7500 does v6, ISL and everything we could possibly 
want.

Have fun
Grahame