Networking

To keep network traffic away from my house WIFI network, and because some Arduino boards are not WIFI enabled, I have decided to use a wired network for the data.

This meant that I needed a rack mounted network switch, so scouring the local pages I found a HP 2530 Network Switch

To provide the IP4 network addresses I have deployed the kea DHCP4 application on a Raspberry Pi using an Ansible Playbook

Further reading

  • DHCP   -   DHCP configuration details

  • DNS   -   DNS configuration details

  • Switch   -   Network Switch configuration details