Automated Living Backend Server

apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp

and in  /etc/network/interfaces :

auto enp3s0:1
iface enp3s0:1 inet static
name TFTP Server
address 172.16.0.251
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 172.16.0.255
network 172.16.0.0

and then 

/etc/init.d/networking restart

ifconfig
enp3s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d4:3d:7e:ba:a9:56
          inet addr:10.0.1.74  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::d63d:7eff:feba:a956/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:433088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:66214575 (66.2 MB)  TX bytes:1114489 (1.1 MB)
          Interrupt:19

enp3s0:1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d4:3d:7e:ba:a9:56
          inet addr:172.16.0.251  Bcast:172.16.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:19

Sweet, up and running!

next I will configure the services!

I just recently got my office in a (mostly) usable state at the new house, and threw my hand usb installer into the PC I was going to use as a server with a fresh 3tb sata drive, I came back to it today and found things were a hot steaming mess, the scripts I have on my auto installer relies heavily on having an internet connection, this was actually the first time I have had a problem with this, I should make everything fail gracefully, it doesn't, it turns it into a hot mess.

Right away I found the problem, the integrated NIC is putting on a good show, but its all for show.

It gets a link light, you can detect the interface, but it wont DHCP, and wont respond to static settings, I booted a LiveUSB to confirm it wasnt just an issue with this install, no dice.

Maybe now I remember why this PC landed in the reuse pile.....

I know somewhere in this house exists a PCI-E NIC, I just saw it...... a few weeks ago?

Oh boy..

Today I will be working on getting the first server set up, I will post its specs here as soon as I figure out what machine I will use...

Its roles will be:

TFTP Server (boot SBCs)

Central Log server

Notification server (using prowl to send messages to the phones)

Video Transcoding (lowest priority)

HDMI framegrabber (more details soon)

It will have a virtual interface sitting at 172.16.0.251 for TFTP serving so I can hard encode the address in uboot and let this be as easy to deploy as possible without interfering with standard network setups.

The base will be Ubuntu 16 Server