Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

[Mark Atwood]

Please set an account up on thyrsus.com for me.


You can grab SSH keys like so:
curl -O https://github.com/<username>.keys


So thus get mine at https://github.com/fallenpegasus.keys


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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:54 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Really good plans have happy consequences one didn't foresee. But also
> complicating ones.
>
> Mark encouraged me to work on the Microserver HOWTO as a recruitment
> device for future time-service experts and, implicitly, so I would
> learn more about how NTP works from the outside. Those were good
> reasons.
>
> Now it's growing another use that Mark may not have foreseen -
> benchmarking different ntp.conf setups and measuring comparative
> offsets and jitter. For these purposes, having several co-located
> machines with identical hardware/software configurations and the
> same Internet connectivity is ideal.
>
> However, this also creates an implicit bottleneck.  Hal wants me to
> set up a machine with both a HAT and a GR701W and use it to measure
> offsets. It's a an excellent idea, but I can't do it in any
> predictable amount of time - I'm working as hard as I can just keeping
> the project-related backlog in my mailbox from overwhelming me. More
> generally, Eric as the only person who can use the test farm is not
> going to scale well.
>
> Accordingly, I'll make logins on the thyrsus.com bastion host
> available to project developers.  The test farm is accessible from
> there. I'll make myself available to plug and unplug hardware
> on request.
>
> Current test farm inventory:
>
> au.local - Pi 2 with blue-wired SKU 424254
> cu.local - Pi 2 with Uputronics HAT
> fe.local - Pi 3 with Adafruit HAT
>
> All three have skyview good enough that they pretty much always have
> lock except just after power-cycling. GR601-W or GR-701 USB GPSes
> can be plugged into any of these on request.
>
> Soon to arrive:
>
> * an Odroid C2 (ordered)
>
> * 8-port Netgear switch because my existing one is run out of ports -
>   going to dedicate this one to the lab. POE capable because that's
>   part of the plan for the BeagleBone variant (ordered)
>
> * an Anker 10-port powered USB hub, because Mark turned out to be
>   unsurpringly right that el cheapo unpowered hubs aren't stable
>   enough (ordered)
>
> * two more Pi 3/Adafruit HAT combinations and a HAT for the Odroid
>   (not yet ordered, but I know I have to for the ntp.conf comparisons)
>
> Currently planning for a maximum of 10 test machines and an actual
> complement of 7 - 2 Pi2s, 3 Pi3s, an Odroid C2, and a Beaglebone Black.
>
> Sigh. I've spent years avoiding learning enough about network
> management to run a server farm this size.  No longer, it seems.
>
> Funniest possibility:  If I need a rack for these systems,
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5nrHz9I94
>
> A functional rack made of legos. That's worth some geekery points
> right there.
> --
>                                                 >>esr>>
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