The glitter bomb Dell has a very wizard of oz colour by technicolor vibe to it I half expected there to be a little man insiide running around pulling levers and pressing buttons tbh
Port 0 is for accessing the gateway inside the grid. Port 1 is bridged to 9Front devices outside the grid, so they have an inside grid IP to connect to. Port 2 is sort of like a NAT, machines inside the grid can mount it and use it to talk to the outside. And port 3 provides auth, file system, and cpu service to computers outside the grid. Like if I want to use drawterm on a computer outside the grid, it connects to port 3.
9Front was forked from Plan9 years ago to do some bug fixes and add more drivers. They have also added some new ideas, like the /shr filesystem. On the surface though, they behave very much the same.
The glitter bomb Dell has a very wizard of oz colour by technicolor vibe to it
I half expected there to be a little man insiide running around pulling levers and pressing buttons tbh
Other people have done videos/blogs on the "Treasure Box PC", the whole thing is bizarre.
You mention your gateway having a four port ethernet card, are you connecting your grid to 3 other networks or do they have other uses?
Port 0 is for accessing the gateway inside the grid. Port 1 is bridged to 9Front devices outside the grid, so they have an inside grid IP to connect to. Port 2 is sort of like a NAT, machines inside the grid can mount it and use it to talk to the outside. And port 3 provides auth, file system, and cpu service to computers outside the grid. Like if I want to use drawterm on a computer outside the grid, it connects to port 3.
I wonder if the Dell Wyse Thin clients will work with 9front?
It should. Looking around really quick, it seems people can boot Linux on them, so Dell has not locked them down too much.
9front came right up on a Wyse 3040 for me. So cute.
How does 9Front differs from Plan 9 from Bell Labs?
9Front was forked from Plan9 years ago to do some bug fixes and add more drivers. They have also added some new ideas, like the /shr filesystem. On the surface though, they behave very much the same.