At my high school, we have several rack mounted servers that got donated to us and we are are trying to find the best configuration to get the highest possible speeds.
Our original goal was to connect the servers to a switch and then plug that into the ethernet port adjacent to our server rack. Unfortunately, the school tech chief forbids us from connecting to the wired network, im assuming it causes issues with the user authentication. (Normally when you connect to the network it prompts you for your name and student id number) so it looks like that is out the window. The tech chief also refuses to create us our own private vlan so that is out the window as well.
Currently, we have around 6 servers to setup and only 2 network cards. Our class also has a bunch of switches, routers, and ethernet cables at our disposal. My question is, is it possible for us to create a sort of “router on a stick” scenario where all the servers are connected to a switch and that traffic is sent from the switch to a router that exchanges traffic with the school network? (Keep in mind the issue is we don’t have direct ethernet connection to anything, not even an ethernet input for the ‘router on a stick’) Or should we just buy network cards for all our servers?
Also, once we gain access to the network, we aren’t sure how to authenticate the servers without a GUI. Normally on windows we use google chrome to type in our id # and password into the online portal. Could it be as simple as sending a post request containing our credentials to the server hosting the authentication site?
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