On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Marc Juul wrote: what's a private lan, and what's it for? What's the topology of the building divided into? does that mean that if something plugs into an ethernet port, it's going to be on a different subnet from the stuff connected to the wifi? Do we need to do that? My preference would be to keep things simple. If things are more complicated then it creates a larger divide between the knows and the know-nots, and that leads to concentration of understanding of the infrastructure. If there has to be complexity of our system, for example two different subnets for different purposes, I would request that it be documented on the wiki in plain language so that it's not a mystery. I have learned a bit of network stuff over the years but there's still so much I don't understand, and I can only imagine how opaque it all is for people with less knowledge than me. -jake

The private lan used to exist, and did mostly separate ethernet from wifi. But in 2019 when the private lan switch died suddenly, people freaked out and immediately moved all its ethernet cables onto the other switch next to it. None of them were labelled, so it was impossible to reverse this change without a lot of detective work. I'm sorry I didn't document things well enough when I first set up saros. But it sounds like things are changing soon when Marc sets up the new router - is it still worth bothering to document how saros is configured now?