The Stein Home Network is a long-term hobby of mine. I enjoy the process of researching and testing technologies to find ways to make my life easier, more efficient, more secure, and more fun. Every year during the holidays I tend to change something with the network be it installing new hardware, upgrading or changing software, or something else. That is why you may see things like “2017 Edition” or “2021 Edition” in the titles.
A naming convention is a way to give names to devices on a network so they are descriptive or easier to type into a connection string. In college I was a network administrator for the “spirits” lab where the various terminals had names like “vodka”, “rum”, etc. I did not start this, but did later […]
