Network pics thread

Doing a little field testing involving the last AP pic...

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Sweet. Nice updated Pics of that, like the fact you got your own breaker for it.

Welcome back xphil long time no post! Now judging by calvin...Will the Mrs. let you bring everything back with you or only some?....:p

That would kick ass to drive around with in the back here, but the 5-0 would stop us before we even hit the road...

EDIT: Looks almost like a electronic machine gun...
 
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It's not for wardriving, I'd have a different choice of antennas for that...your neighborhood is safe :)
 
NTAuthourity said:
That would kick ass to drive around with in the back here, but the 5-0 would stop us before we even hit the road...

EDIT: Looks almost like a electronic machine gun...
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I got some pretty crazy looks driving around, no problems with LE though...it's not illegal to put stuff in the back of your truck. In fairness, it's a big truck and you'd have some trouble seeing it from the height of most cars. :D
 
NTAuthourity said:
Welcome back xphil long time no post! Now judging by calvin...Will the Mrs. let you bring everything back with you or only some?....:p
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Thanks buddy, and we live together now. She really doens't care about the rack since its in my office, when we move out of the town house(5 years or so) thats when Ill bring the remaining racks that I have from my parents house to the basement.

Jay_oasis said:
xphil3 what is all that used for?
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Like calvin said, playground and seriously... how actually downloads porn anymore? Its 2010 calvin, we stream. Theres no financial gains in any of this but getting something together to start making money wouldn't be too difficult. Ill try and list off some of the services/stuff I have running though

CUCM/CUPS/Unity
CUBE for PSTN connectivity(OOL phone and magic jack, MGCP and appropriate dial plans on the CUCM)

RANCID, Orion, nagios, MRTG for network monitoring(this is purley to keep my skills) I am actually using orion and rancid though.
dynamips host, jumpstation for external connctivity
Domain controllers
vcenters(eventually ill get to playing with view)
I have like 6 different open source firewall distros, so I can keep up to snuff on them
public facing DNS and web(1:1 translated)

5520 is for testing and eventually will probably move to my parents house for more play(multi-context and vpn concentration).
switches are for the CCIE/lab, so I can quickly prove people wrong when they think they're spanning-tree gods or think that the 3550 can do pvlans ;)

yeah, you get the point... its all pretty much a huge lab to mess around with and huge [seen] potential to make money.. plus I have about 50 phones... managed voip perhaps :D
 
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My humble little network. (sorry about the terrible pictures)

Motorola modem, Comcast 20/3 broadband connection. WRT-54G running DD-WRT, sadly this router is on its last legs and is cause for my next picture... Switch is an old HP Procurve 2708, fantastic gigabit switch for the (cheap) price I got it for. It's loud though, not a major concern being in the basement.
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Zotac dual-core Atom board. Going to make a router out of this baby. Have an Intel Pcie dual port NIC coming as well as an Atheros 5418 mini-pcie Wifi card.
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Nice setup sae, it may be humble but it works and thats all that matters. Judging by the comcast stamp on the modem I'm guessing its a rental? If so go here http://www.comcast.com/fastestfast/ and check to see if the docsis 3.0 migration has been completed in your area yet. If it has you may want to drop by your local comcast and switch that surfboard out for a docsis 3.0 modem. You will get much better performance out of it. And if you have home phone through somebody else switch it over and get one of the docsis 3.0 EMTA's like the one in my pics above, they will put you in a triple play bundle and possibly even lower your monthly rate. You will love it and the battery backup last at least 8 hours.
 
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finally got around to taking a few pics at home. Sorry about the mess, and the fuzzy blackberry pictures.

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View of my office. It's actually an 8'x10' cubicle I got from work. They're actually extremely nice, about $5000 each new :O

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Relay rack, have a patch panel to top of rack and another panel for network drops around the house.
Using a Cisco 871W for my router, westel modem. HP 24 port switch (2600 series)

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My Cisco lab, top to bottom:
APC environmental monitoring
PIX501
1811W
2x 2501
2621xm
2611
PIX 515E
2x 1912
3550
2924
3745

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Just started putting stuff back in the rack. Ended up bringing my Netapp rack to work and taking home a Dell rack

bottom to top:
4Gb FC disk shelf
SCSI ultra 320 diskshelf
APC 3000VA UPS
Dell powervault SCSI disk shelf
Dell PE R200 running ESXi
3x Dell PE 2650's
Dell slide out KMM
Linksys 48 port Gb switch
Cisco 800 series router
some other 16 port Linksys switch
Netgear 48 port switch
Another APC environmental monitoring box
 
Received one the switches today. (ordered a second one a day later as well as some NIC's)
Got it installed in my rack:

 
Either thats the worlds smallest switch in a 19" rack or that racks not standard width....
 
That hub was garbage. So far I see not much improvement due to slow NIC's, thats why I ordered faster ones. And yeah, well worth the money.
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@Adam Yea its a tiny switch. Standard 19" rack
 
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dashpuppy said:
is that a hp laptop with a BSOD :)
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Dell Latitude E4300 w/ a BSOD, dead hard drive. Just borrowed it from work, was sitting in a closet for the last.. as long as I can remember. now I know why nobody was using it :)
Just gonna use it for working on some cisco gear, don't feel like installing windows on my iMac.
 
dashpuppy said:
is that a hp laptop with a BSOD :)
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WOW! im surprised that you didn't say something along the lines of "pffft.... untangle would fix that bsod!" :rolleyes:

berg0, nice dude... where are the SRX's though ;) ive been killing my 240's recently in the lab.
 
xphil3 said:
Thanks buddy, and we live together now. She really doens't care about the rack since its in my office, when we move out of the town house(5 years or so) thats when Ill bring the remaining racks that I have from my parents house to the basement.
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I so need an office...my lab is in our bedroom behind the door, off unless im using it...no one wants to sleep listening to a 6500 roaring...and my home network is under a hutch in the living room for the time being :)
 
Jay_oasis said:
why do you need windows to work on Cisco gear? Just telnet or SSH
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My iMac doesn't have a serial port, my usb to serial adapters use the prolific chip, the drivers don't work well under OSX, I need console access to several of the devices.

also, I much prefer PuTTY to the OSX terminal
 
xphil3 said:
WOW! im surprised that you didn't say something along the lines of "pffft.... untangle would fix that bsod!" :rolleyes:

berg0, nice dude... where are the SRX's though ;) ive been killing my 240's recently in the lab.
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oh, I actually forgot about those, I'll take pics tonight, but I've got 3 SRX100's at home right now :) also forgot to take pics of the Cisco voice gear

I'm liking my 240's as well, they stay at work though

LOL @ untangle.
 
Berg0 said:
My iMac doesn't have a serial port, my usb to serial adapters use the prolific chip, the drivers don't work well under OSX, I need console access to several of the devices.

also, I much prefer PuTTY to the OSX terminal
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I hate the fact that new laptops dont have RS232 anymore, annoying as hell.
 
Jay_oasis said:
I hate the fact that new laptops dont have RS232 anymore, annoying as hell.
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I'm over it at this point. It's not like its a huge hassle having a USB dongle permanently attached to the console cable I keep in my bag and USB is easier to connect/disconnect quickly. :eek:
 
Lightworker said:
I'm over it at this point. It's not like its a huge hassle having a USB dongle permanently attached to the console cable I keep in my bag and USB is easier to connect/disconnect quickly. :eek:
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I don't mind it either. Just need to get a new one to work with x64 windows 7. My belkin one that i've had forever doesn't work
 
Lightworker said:
I'm over it at this point. It's not like its a huge hassle having a USB dongle permanently attached to the console cable I keep in my bag and USB is easier to connect/disconnect quickly. :eek:
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Ditto, I could probably just glue a cisco console cable to the usb serial converter if it wasn't for these darn HP switches that require a DB9 to DB9 null modem cable for the console
 
Finally got something to put Pfsense on.
broken screen laptop off craigslist: $50
PCMCIA D-Link NIC: $6

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I was really hoping that the docking station would work as the second NIC but when you drop it in the built in NIC gets blocked off.
 
Berg0 said:
Ditto, I could probably just glue a cisco console cable to the usb serial converter if it wasn't for these darn HP switches that require a DB9 to DB9 null modem cable for the console
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Dell Switches are the same too.
 
Second one arrived, installing the hardware now.
only problem is is that my router isn't gigabit -_-
 
calvinj said:
Dell Switches are the same too.
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Good ol re-branded Nortel Dell switches....Worse, try this Nortel's Stupid reverse pinout on every damn switch...2 cisco console cables and a rj45 coupler and your good to go though :) at least not on a dell though..
 
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