[tech] Extra devices network for IoT

[Mark Tearle]

Perhaps an opportunity for us to play with Kea? https://kea.isc.org/

It can be backended off a database.

Mark

--
Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>


On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, at 12:13 PM, Dylan H wrote:
> While it will be more annoying, I reckon we should require devices to be registered in the DHCP config before it hands out addresses to them.
> This forces us to have any new IoT devices documented at least somewhere (the DHCP config), vs. potentially having a whole heap of mysterious IoT devices that no one knows about and that have no record of their existence anywhere.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dylan Hicks [333]
> 
> On 21 Nov 2019 9:06 pm, Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>> My only thoughts here are: do we want the DHCP to give out addresses by default, or do we want to have to register the devices first in the config?
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> --
>> Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, at 6:07 PM, Donald Sutherland wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> On discord/IRC today, I proposed adding an extra wireless network for IoT devices, ideally WPA2 PSK.
>>> 
>>> Consensus seems to be: set up an IoT/webcams/"devices" VLAN or set it up on the Unifi access point in the clubroom (or both).
>>> 
>>> As Nick said: "There will be a couple of extra steps - creating a new subnet and VLAN on murasoi, with DHCP but no default route, or maybe just a firewall."
>>> 
>>> Also apparently the Unifi point is broken right now, Dylan said he might work on it. Might have something to do with relying on "a specific version of MongoDB".
>>> 
>>> Thoughts/ideas/comments/concerns?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Donald Sutherland
>>> donsuth - [DAS]
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> List Archives: http://lists.ucc.asn.au/pipermail/tech
>>> 
>>> Unsubscribe here: https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/mtearle%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
>> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20191122/5ffea1fa/attachment.htm