Research and Development Network

h1. Wiki

The Research and Development (RnD) Network at Reykjavik University is designed to be used for research and development projects that have been approved by the custodians of the RnD Network.  This project was previously called DevNet.  Devnet's [[devnet:|wiki]] and [[devnet-documentation:|documentation]] can be found at these links.

* [[Frequently Asked Questions|FAQ]]

h2. Machines running on the RnD Network

* [[hydrogen]] -- Does not exist, reserved address at beginning of range

* [[helium]] - Router for the entire network.  Connect only on SSL.

* [[lithium]] - Kerberos Master, AFS db and file server

* [[beryllium]] - Kerberos Slave, AFS db and file server

* [[boron]] - Kerberos Slave, AFS db and file server (big)

* [[carbon]] - PROXMOX Virtual Machine host

* [[nitrogen]] - AFS Backup server, Photo gallery test server

* [[oxygen]] - PROXMOX Virtual Machine host

* [[fluorine]] - Web services for foley (may be replaced by Magnesium)

* [[neon]] - VM, hosted on oxygen, DNS Server for the network

* [[sodium]] - VM, hosted on oxygen, GIT server for the network

* [[magnesium]] - VM, hosted on oxygen, Media server and afs/kerberos enabled server-snapshot

* [[aluminum]] - Multi party cryptography testing server - Baldur

* [[silicon]] - VM, Centos-IPA replacement for helium

* [[phosphorus]] - unallocated

* [[sulfur]] - Web server for Hakkavélin

* [[chlorine]] - unallocated

* [[argon]] - unallocated

* [[potassium]] - unallocated

* [[calcium]] - unallocated

* [[scandium]] - unallocated

* [[titanium]] - unallocated

* [[vanadium]] - unallocated

* [[chromium]] - unallocated

* [[manganese]] - unallocated

* [[iron]] - unallocated

* [[cobalt]] - unallocated

* [[nickel]] - unallocated

* [[copper]] - unallocated

* [[zinc]] - unallocated

* [[gallium]] - NATed network

* [[uranium]] - Test server for Gunnar, running a minecraft server, locked down (is on the natted network)

h2. Research and Development Network Naming Policy

We use the names of the chemical elements as server names. All machines have a chemical element name as a primary name, and the letter for that chemical element as a cname to the primary hostname. If possible any service names on that machine should be a cname to the primary chemical element name.

The numbering system for IPV4 is 130.208.242.X where X = atomic number + 63.  Helium has atomic number 2, so it is 130.208.242.65

For IPV6 it is  2a00:c88:5000:102::82d0:f2XX where XX = atomic number + 3F *IN HEX*.  Helium has atomic number 2 so it is  2a00:c88:5000:102::82d0:f241.

You can also make attachment:rnd-ip-generate.py do this for you.

h2. Network configuration

Example from /etc/network/interfaces under Ubuntu/Debian

<pre>

auto eth0 # this line is very important

iface eth0 inet static

        address 130.208.242.XX

        netmask 27

        gateway 130.208.242.65

        dns-nameservers 130.208.242.65

        dns-search rnd.ru.is

iface eth0 inet6 static

        address 2a00:c88:5000:102::82d0:f2XX

        netmask 64

        gateway 2a00:c88:5000:102::82d0:f241

        dns-nameservers 2a00:c88:5000:103::82d0:f241

        dns-search rnd.ru.is

</pre>

After setting these options, either reboot the machine or run <pre>/etc/init.d/networking restart</pre>

h2. Network Booting

You can boot from the network here, see [[Network Booting]]

h2. Todo

* [[BackupAFS]]

* Set up a proper DNS infrastructure

* Set up a configuration management system (ansible or puppet or ???)

* Install krb5 keytabs on all the unix servers for ksu and SSO.

h2. Custodians of the Research and Development Network

* Gunnar Guðvarðarson gunnargud13@ru.is Maintainer

* Joseph Timothy Foley foley@ru.is RnD Contact for RU

* Jacqueline Clare Mallet jacky@ru.is IT Contact for RU