Moving or copying files from one Google drive account to another

I have seen questions on the web about how to migrate (copy/move) files from one GDrive account to another. There are many reasons, such as migrating from one Google account (such as company) to your personal account, etc.

WARNING: you may be violating your company policy by moving/copying files from your company Google account to a personal. I advise you to consult your company security officer or equivalent before doing this.

There are other reasons for wanting to copy or moving large number of files from one GDrive to another. Such as for me. I shared a folder in my GDrive with my family for putting our family photos in a central location. My family have G account, and there own GDrive. It seem that Google make it painful to copy files from one GDrive to another. Their suggestions is some form of downloading the files to your local drive first, and then uploading it to the other GDrive that you want.

This is painful!!! There are so many reasons why it’s painful…. 😉

The solution I’ve used is to install Google Drive app (supports OSX, Windows, Linux, Android and IOS).

Link Google Drive app to one Google account, and now you can treat the files in it as on your local drive and drag from there to the GDrive account you want to copy to.

Why you should care about “Net Neutrality” and the FCC

Linking to an article written by a colleague. I agree with its content.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140516165054-86049424-why-you-should-care-about-the-fcc-and-net-neutrality?trk=object-title

We should do all we can to protect what has made the Internet successful. Do not turn it into a pay-wall, where only those who can afford it can use it.

Repurposing netbook into gateway, firewall, AP

The older netbooks, such as ASUS EEE 900 series, have gone down in price. I bought a refurbed EEEPC 900A w/1GB RAM, 4GB SSD and turned it into my gateway, firewall and local AP. Upgraded memory to 2GB RAM, and added an external 8GB SD flash.

I loaded Fedora Core 17 Security Distro on it. Now I have a nice, cheap gateway, firewall and AP (although only 802.11G speed).

I’ll add more to this as I have time…..

Unfortunately the netbook only have one wired 100M enet. I need at least GigE interfaces. I am currently looking at the

OEM Production 2550L2D-MxPC

which is an Atom D2550 based system with 2 Broadcom GigE, small, lower power and up to 8GB of RAM. This should last me a long time as a router/gw/fw.

More to come….

Single DHCP server for multiple subnets (VLANs) one single interface

Surprisingly this was an extremely hard to find piece of information on the topic. At least one that fit my need. There were lots of questions in various online posts, but no completely working answers with all the relevant details in one place.

I am going to document it here.

Aggregation router is a pair of Cisco 6506E in VSS mode, active-active. They have ip helper pointing to my DHCP server.

Multiple VLANs and subnets

There was a pretty useful post about single DHCP server, multiple subnets on one interface here. But this does not work for my situation. He’s using a fairly simple network, and his DHCP server run on the gateway.

I have a gateway/router that aggregates multiple VLANs, one of which is a management VLAN that my DHCP server sits on. All the other VLANs has the DHCP relay helper address pointing to my DHCP server (see graph above).

Using the “shared-network” statement in dhcpd.conf does not work as that will pool all of the subnet declaration into that single network. This is why the blog post uses the classes along with “match if” statements to put DHCP client requests into the correct subnets. I have anywhere from 200 to 300+ servers in each VLAN, and they are a mix of gears/vendors. There is no way that I can use hardware (MAC) address, without it getting very complicated, not to mention the horror of maintaining that mapping.

ISC DHCP actually supports what I wanted out of the box. The trick was to make all the subnet declaration, but don’t use the “shared-network” statement. Make sure the DHCP relay are setup correctly, and when client make DHCP requests, they will arrive at the DHCP server with the relay address in it as the GIADDR (gateway IP address). The DHCP server will see that and know which subnet it should provide addresses from.

Here is the dhcpd.conf portion of the working config. Note that I also do PXE and kickstart boot from this dhcpd server.

authoritative;

# this is the most important line. It specifies the method
# to use to connect to the DNS server and update it.
ddns-update-style none;
ddns-domainname "example.com";
ignore client-updates;
option host-name = config-option server.ddns-hostname;

include "/etc/rndc.key";

option domain-name              "example.com";
option domain-name-servers      10.1.14.10,10.1.14.11,10.1.14.12;
option time-offset              -18000; # Pacific Standard Time
option ntp-servers              10.1.14.11;
one-lease-per-client            off;
default-lease-time              86400;
max-lease-time                  604800;
option                          ip-forwarding off;

# PXE
next-server install;
filename "/linux-install/pxelinux.0";

# Subnet for internal hosts
    subnet 10.1.0.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
        range 10.1.1.200 10.1.1.253;
        option routers                  10.1.0.1;
        option subnet-mask              255.255.254.0;
        #failover peer "dhcp";
    }

    subnet 10.1.2.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
        range 10.1.3.200 10.1.3.253;
        option routers                  10.1.2.1;
        option subnet-mask              255.255.254.0;
        #failover peer "dhcp";
    }

    subnet 10.1.4.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
        range 10.1.5.200 10.1.5.253;
        option routers                  10.1.4.1;
        option subnet-mask              255.255.254.0;
        #failover peer "dhcp";
    }

....and so on....