===== Naptastic Network Playbook ===== ====Partition drives==== Partitioning: The most recent rebuild was shark, for which I took Debian's default EFI setup for the 2TB OS drive. I only changed / to BTRFS instead of ext4. Debian installs itself to a subvolume named @root and makes that subvolume the default, so it's ready for snapshotting backups. Add /mnt/snapshots in fstab. ====Move ~ to a BTRFS subvolume==== Separate snapshotting the OS from snapshotting your files. ====SSH key for root==== mkdir /root/.ssh chmod 700 /root/.ssh curl https://keys.naptastic.com/david/naptastic.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys ====Reconfigure SSH==== Configure ssh for a high-numbered port, and not to allow password-based logins. Restart sshd. Verify that 'ssh root@localhost' fails. (You didn't forward your agent, did you?). ====Backups==== Create /mnt/snapshots. Create an entry in /etc/fstab the same as for / but with "subvol=/": # / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation UUID=some-long-string / btrfs noatime,nodiratime,subvol=@rootfs 0 0 UUID=some-long-string /mnt/snapshots btrfs noatime,nodiratime,subvol=/ 0 0 ====Install Shorewall==== * customize interfaces, rules, policy...? * /etc/default/shorewall * /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf * systemctl enable * reboot a bunch of times because it's not passing traffic for no reason ====Pick the best mirror==== If the repo is installed or mounted locally: deb file:///mnt/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src file:///mnt/debian bookworm main contrib non-free If you have to get it via HTTP: deb http://mirror.narf.rocks/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://mirror.narf.rocks/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware If you have to use public mirrors (RIP): deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware ====Remove crap==== apt -y remove update-notifier pulseaudio-module-bluetooth bluez blueman bluez-cups bluez-obexd modemmanager rtkit ====Install extra packages==== (This is set up so you can triple-click each block you need, copy/paste or middle-paste into your terminal, then press enter at the end and install everything in one transaction.) apt -y install curl vim whois Hardware hosts add: smartmontools mdadm qemu-kvm gparted Desktops: hexchat synaptic terminator fonts-lohit-knda fonts-knda keepassx evolution virt-manager network-manager-gnome Audio workstations: qjackctl alsa-tools-gui eq10q jalv jamin lilv-utils If you plan to compile your own kernel: bison flex libssl-dev ncurses-dev libelf-dev ====Networking==== ===Device Names=== ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link Here is what a link file looks like for an Ethernet device: $ cat /etc/systemd/network/20-igb0.link # # Remember to `update-initramfs -u` after changing this file! # [Match] MACAddress=b4:2e:99:38:a9:66 [Link] Name=emo0 MTUBytes=9000 * emoX for ports on the motherboard * enX for (multi-)gigabit stand-up cards * ibX for InfiniBand IPoIB devices (these do not need .link files though) * mlxX for Mellanox devices in Ethernet mode ===Port Conventions=== X is 0-indexed. Port 0 on a stand-up card is the farthest from the motherboard. On a motherboard, it's the left-most port if there's more than one port. I configure ConnectX-3 cards to be InfiniBand on port 0 and Ethernet on port 1, so a system ends up with interfaces named ib0 and mlx1. ===InfiniBand=== * [[infiniband]] * mst* installer * copy production opensm configuration in case you have take over as SM * (what needs to change here for VMs using virtual functions?) Comment out svcrdma in /etc/rdma/modules/rdma.conf or nfs-kernel-server won't start. I'm not sure what's **actually** needed to make NFS/RDMA work. ===Ethernet configuration=== Is a total mess right now. I don't know what I'm doing or how I want to do it. ====Hugepages==== Useful for databases, PHP, Factorio, and probably other things! Add something like this to /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.nr_hugepages=512 To make a non-persistent change, sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=512 Make sure your locked memory limit is equal to or greater than the amount of RAM you're reserving for hugepages. ====Shell profile==== * Profile stuff: Bash, Vim, ? Can I automate this? (Of course I can.) ====Logging==== * disable journald; configure logging for everything. * Make a list of things that need to log ====Email==== lol, not yet ====Disable TTY screen blanking==== I don't know when this is necessary anymore. Add this to ''/etc/rc.local'' above the ''exit 0'' line: sh -c 'setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0 < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1' ====Audio workstations==== cat >> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf default-sample-format = s24le default-sample-rate = 96000 ^D More on [[lad]].