Monday, January 14, 2019

Creative ideas for server lab behind NAT/wifi

I'm working on setting up a server/networking lab for a highschool CS class (classroom does physical IT type work, security, programming, etc) - they have a rack of equipment (lots of Cisco gear and a few decommissioned VMWare servers) and some refurbished laptops as endpoints. They were supposed to get an ethernet drop from the district that runs outside their trusted network, however the IT resources have been tied-up all year and haven't gotten around to it.

There is, however, guest wifi for BYOD, and I was tossing around the idea of using that for the server equipment - mainly for things like installing patches, but it would also be nice if I could get some kind of inbound access configured, at least for remote management if not to try hosting a basic web service. It would be easy enough I think to repurpose a raspberry pi with a wifi-ethernet bridge, or is there a better idea for something like this?



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