From: Matt Birkholz <matt@birchwood-abbey.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 04:21:50 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: The name of wifi interface changed to "wild" in the small institute.
X-Git-Url: https://birchwood-abbey.net/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c16fe1f6b62f507b60ca5ceae341dbb55354b07;p=Network

The name of wifi interface changed to "wild" in the small institute.

Note evolution of our "wild" (untrusted) subnet as well.
---

diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 88584fe..00b2a39 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ Assistant appliance (Raspberry Pi).
 
 Birchwood Abbey's gate is a $110 µPC configured as A Small Institute
 Gate, thus providing a campus VPN on a campus Wi-Fi access point.  It
-routes network traffic from its ~wifi~ and ~lan~ interfaces to its
+routes network traffic from its ~wild~ and ~lan~ interfaces to its
 ~isp~ interface (and back) with NAT.  That is all the abbey requires
 of its gate, so there is no additional Ansible configuration in this
 chapter (yet).
@@ -1592,15 +1592,17 @@ chapter (yet).
 
 The abbey gate's ~lan~ interface is the PC's built-in Ethernet
 interface, connected to the cloister Ethernet, a Gigabit Ethernet
-switch.  Its ~wifi~ interface is a USB3.0 Ethernet adapter connected
-with a cross-over cable to the WAN interface of a Think Penguin
-TPE-R1300 (and at one time a Linksys WRT1900AC).  The ~isp~ interface
-is another USB3.0 Ethernet adapter connected with a cross-over cable
-to the Ethernet interface of a "cable modem" (a Starlink terminal).
+switch.  Its ~wild~ interface is a USB3.0 Ethernet adapter connected
+to a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch into which are patched the WAN
+interfaces of two Think Penguin TPE-R1300 (and sometimes a Linksys
+WRT1900AC), as well as a couple IoT things like an Ecowitt hub and a
+HomeAssistant Pi.  The ~isp~ interface is another USB3.0 Ethernet
+adapter connected with a cross-over cable to the Ethernet interface of
+a "cable modem" (a Starlink terminal).
 
 The MAC address of each interface is set in =private/vars.yml= (see
 [[file:Institute/private/vars.yml][=Institute/private/vars.yml=]]) as the values of the ~gate_lan_mac~,
-~gate_wifi_mac~ and ~gate_isp_mac~ variables.
+~gate_wild_mac~ and ~gate_isp_mac~ variables.
 
 ** The Abbey's Starlink Configuration
 
diff --git a/publish b/publish
index a3e1010..80bda70 100755
--- a/publish
+++ b/publish
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ cd ~/Network/Abbey/
 
 errs=0
 
+if ! grep -HnEr $WILD_NET
+then errs=$(( $errs + 1 )); fi
 if ! grep -HnEr $PUBLIC_VPN_NET
 then errs=$(( $errs + 1 )); fi
 if ! grep -HnEr $CAMPUS_VPN_NET
 then errs=$(( $errs + 1 )); fi
-if ! grep -HnEr $GATE_WIFI_NET
-then errs=$(( $errs + 1 )); fi
 
 if ! grep -HnE '^[#*].*TODO|\?\?\?' Institute/README.org
 then errs=$(( $errs + 1 )); fi