On Working From Home
It's around this time of year that I normally start work on preparing new software images for deployment over the summer. Given the current pandemic, I — like so many others — have moved to working from home Using a laptop with VPN and and RDC I can access the tools necessary to put together packages and compile the image sequence. The challenge is — how to actually test OS deployment when the distribution point servers are only available behind that VPN.
I think I've come up with a solution:
Work laptop built-in Ethernet port connected directly to home internet router
USB Ethernet adapter connected to the WAN port of an old router
Router SSID set the same as the campus open SSID with MAC whitelist enabled
Laptop connected to VPN, using Windows internet sharing to share that connection to the USB Ethernet adapter
Initial tests are promising. A work laptop brought home for testing connects to the router, since it sees the SSID it's expecting, and it is able to access firewalled resources as though it were physically on campus.
Time to start testing deployment.
(just don't tell the infosec team)









