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Wikimedia servers reside in two racks along with Bomis servers, hosted at [http://www.candidhosting.com Candidhosting]. Wikimedia/Bomis have a dedicated IP range, <tt>207.142.131.192/26</tt>. There are two gateways: <tt>207.142.131.193</tt> and <tt>207.142.131.225</tt>. Total burstable bandwidth is 200 Mbit/s, delivered through two separate 100BaseTX uplinks, connected from the same broadcast domain that is ''shared with other customers''. | Wikimedia servers reside in two racks along with Bomis servers, hosted at [http://www.candidhosting.com Candidhosting]. Wikimedia/Bomis have a dedicated IP range, <tt>207.142.131.192/26</tt>. There are two gateways: <tt>207.142.131.193</tt> and <tt>207.142.131.225</tt>. Total burstable bandwidth is 200 Mbit/s, delivered through two separate 100BaseTX uplinks, connected from the same broadcast domain that is ''shared with other customers''. | ||
| − | Wikimedia owns three [[switches]]. As the two uplinks are not allowed to create a loop, they must be connected to different switches that are not connected to eachother (when not using [[ | + | Wikimedia owns three [[switches]]. As the two uplinks are not allowed to create a loop, they must be connected to different switches that are not connected to eachother (when not using [[Wikipedia:Spanning Tree Protocol|STP]]), which is not an ideal situation. A third switch is currently used to connect internal servers, that don't have public IPs and should not be accessible from the Internet. The IP range used for this internal network is <tt>10.0.0.0/8</tt>. |
Revision as of 15:14, 22 October 2004
The purpose of this page is to give an overview of the current design of the network of the Wikimedia servers, and to provide a place to develop a new and improved network scheme.
Current situation
Wikimedia servers reside in two racks along with Bomis servers, hosted at Candidhosting. Wikimedia/Bomis have a dedicated IP range, 207.142.131.192/26. There are two gateways: 207.142.131.193 and 207.142.131.225. Total burstable bandwidth is 200 Mbit/s, delivered through two separate 100BaseTX uplinks, connected from the same broadcast domain that is shared with other customers.
Wikimedia owns three switches. As the two uplinks are not allowed to create a loop, they must be connected to different switches that are not connected to eachother (when not using STP), which is not an ideal situation. A third switch is currently used to connect internal servers, that don't have public IPs and should not be accessible from the Internet. The IP range used for this internal network is 10.0.0.0/8.
