[tech] Manduba @ Arts

[David Adam]

Thanks to the hard work of [TRS], [JCF], [LGM] and [PMC], Manduba is now 
installed in one of the Faculty of Arts server rooms and accessible on the 
Internet.

Manduba is a Sun Enterprise 4000 with 11.5 GB of RAM and 12 x 400 
MHz UltraSPARC II processors. Clearly, it is pretty good at parallel 
processing. It runs OpenSolaris Nevada snv_101, and has a 64 GB ZFS array 
attached.

It's sitting on our uplink VLAN (UWA VLAN 13) at 192.168.13.20, but also 
has a globally-routable address (manduba.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au or 
130.95.13.254). The 130.95 address is provided by an IPsec tunnel from 
Musundo. An IPsec tunnel from Madako would have been preferable but 
unfortunately the documentation for Debian/Linux's IPsec implementations 
is atrocious.

It has user authentication via LDAP and home directories mounted via NFS. 
NFS mounts of /services and /away won't work until I fiddle with the 
routing a bit more (possibly giving Musundo an additional IP to run IPsec 
tunnels). [TRS] has also adjusted the firewall so that it has full 
Internet access via the Bright link.

The plan is to attach a GNOME buildbot at some stage to help with 
regression testing, so if you're interested in helping out get in touch 
with trs80@ or myself.

There are also vague future plans to allow interested members of the GNOME 
community access to help resolve Solaris issues. If that happens, we'll 
probably switch to mounting the less-secure /away directories.

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au