Network pics thread

SysOps said:
Adonis DNS are the BEST in my book.
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I'm just curious, what do those units do that, say, a good 'ol pfSense appliance can't?
 
djBon2112 said:
I'm just curious, what do those units do that, say, a good 'ol pfSense appliance can't?
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Lots. For starters, its a hardened Linux from the start.
Adonis runs stable under VERY heavy loads. Its has a 99.999% up-time guarantee (key where i work). It has fail over with 0 loss. Dont get me wrong, i run endian at home, with dnsmasq and i love it, but for a production network, you need the separation of duties, and something that will keep you from getting called in at 2am. Also, the BlueCat people are great to work with.
We have been running the Adonis as DNS for the last 3 years supporting thousands of users and it has not had one hickup or reboot outside of the normal 6 month PMIs.
Can you say that about dnsmasq?
 
Going to throw in some wireless porn, x-posted from other thread.

Cisco WLC 4400
Cisco LAP1522AG
Cisco 7921 Wireless IP Phone

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Not fully visible are the following:

7961 IP Phone, some 3560's, a 2851 and an 871.
 
OmegaAvenger said:
Those blue boxes (cant tell what they are because of the camera flash) look like re branded dells if you compare the front bezels.
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They are basically Dells.
Sidewinder G2 firewalls.
A lot of companies use Dell, HP and IBMs as a basis for servers.
 
Lightworker said:
Going to throw in some wireless porn, x-posted from other thread.

Cisco WLC 4400
Cisco LAP1522AG
Cisco 7921 Wireless IP Phone

Not fully visible are the following:

7961 IP Phone, some 3560's, a 2851 and an 871.
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WLC.... like to NO SHUT that port...:p
 
I only see my office a few times a month so all that's in there is an Aironet card and a 2960...

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My home office looks more like this... keyboard shortcuts ftw...

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My temporary workstation / workshop I've setup while I'm remodeling my home.
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Here's my switching station. I use a 16-port KVM (I'm only using 8 channels though --I've never needed more than that and don't have the patience to fabricate another 8 umbilical cords)
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Here's the back side...
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aaronearles said:
I'm impressed, I wouldn't think those plastic tables would hold that kind of weight.
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...and it looks as though the two Dells on the ends are holding up the top shelf! :eek:

<creak...groan...snap....crackle...pop....CRASH!!!!!>
 
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aaronearles said:
I'm impressed, I wouldn't think those plastic tables would hold that kind of weight.
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They don't actually, I placed the Dell towers directly over the steel legs so I'm not really depending on the strength of the plastic table much at all.

MinPins said:
...and it looks as though the two Dells on the ends are holding up the top shelf! :eek:

<creak...groan...snap....crackle...pop....CRASH!!!!!>
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Those Dell XPS 700 towers would probably work well as jack stands for my wife's SUV. The cases alone weigh about 50lbs without any parts in them! They are by far the most substantial cases I've ever seen built (and I've seen a lot). I wouldn't have done it this way if I didn't think they could handle the weight.

aaronearles said:
Is all that in the livingroom of an apartment? Someone must be single :)
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LOL, someone doesn't read the description from the OP!! I'm remodeling my hose right now and my wife's got a desk on the other side of the living room where she does her scrapbooking and nails so it's just as crowded there for her too!!
 
jmroberts70 said:
LOL, someone doesn't read the description from the OP!! I'm remodeling my hose right now and my wife's got a desk on the other side of the living room where she does her scrapbooking and nails so it's just as crowded there for her too!!
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Haha I guess I missed that, I was jealous for a minute...
 
optixgate said:
These are a few pics of my Cisco Home Lab. Im currently working on my CCNA Voice

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The image below is my 2621XM Router. Doing memory upgrade to 256D/48F
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After memory upgrade no IOS on flash so had to partition and install IOS (SUCKS!!)
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From the top to bottom
Catalyst 3524-PWR-24
Catalyst 2950-24
Catalyst 2950-24
Catalyst 2950-24
Cisco 1760 128D/48F 2FXO & 2FXS with CallManager Express
Cisco 2621XM 256D/48F with SDM
Cisco 2620 64D/32F
Cisco 2620 64D/32F
Cisco 2610 64D/32F
Cisco 2501 64D/16F For Frame Relay
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Well its been a few months since i posted the above network. and i have since upgraded everything. here she is
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The new rack I got. Nothing fancy, but sure beats the 12U

And here is everything in my new rack... From the top down
D-Link Router (Only for Wireless)
D-Link DNS-323 NAS with 2x 1.5TB Hdds RAID 0
Cicso Catalyst 2950 48Port Switch - Main switch
Cicso 2621XM 2FE 48F/256D - Main Router connected to 20Mbps Internet Running NAT
Cisco 2620 1FE 32F/64D - DHCP Router
Cisco 2511 4 A/S - Frame Relay Router
Cisco 2620 1FE - Backup DHCP - DNS Server for Internal host name resolution
Cisco 2610 1E - Not using it right now - Will probly make this one Backup DHCP and turn the 2620 into a ROAS.
Cisco Catalyst 3524-PWR-24 - Use for POE for Cisco VoIP Phones
Cisco 1760-V 48F/192D - CME 4.1 - VIC-2FXO, VIC-2FXS for phone system which isent setup (YET)
Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switch - Standby switch incase one of the others fail
Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switch - Access switch for all LAN computers and devices
P4-1.6Ghz, 1GB RAM - FreeNAS BOX - 2x 500GB HDD JBOD 2x 640GB HDD RAID 1
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 and a Cisco PIX 501 on there way. ill post pics of them once they arrive
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1st pic is our PBX room with our core switch (Cisco 4503) with one of our switch stacks on campus. Hoping to get that replaced next year. Also planning on replacing our Cisco VPN Concentrator with a Juniper SA2500.

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Newly installed firewall...

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mmm. srx650.. I see a Barracuda Spam filter, but what is the other box below it?
 
I'm not so fond of it. In previous iterations of firmware, it required a ton of monitoring and tending to. In the most recent firmware, it can learn from trusted hosts, making it more set-it-and-forget with occassional nuances. This is useful for a team as small as mine.

It's a very powerful security tool, however.
 
Not a lot to show at the moment

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1 PDU from my Dads work
3 x Cisco 2950s (2 12 ports and 1 24 port)
Cisco 2509 (used as a terminal server)
2 x Cisco 3620s (not great, but they do a job)

I use mostly Dynamips for anything routing at the moment, but once I've got the BSCI out the way (just under 2 weeks till I retake it), I'll be using the switches for the BCMSN.

I've got a few other random pieces of gear, a horrible Netgear DSL router which is governed by my ISP to use (if you use a different router, they have been known to deprovision the service), can't wait to go with a more open minded ISP...but it works well enough for now.
 
Here my contribution. From top to bottom:
Linksys SRW2024 Managed Gigabit Switch
Cisco ASA 5505
Cisco 1841
Dell Poweredge860 (Runs my two VM Windows 2003 Servers)
My Desktop (hated it being under my feet, so I just rack mounted it)
Two home built linux servers running Centos 5.4
I also have a Cisco 1131AG Access Point that is plugged into my PoE port on the ASA and it's mounted in my living room.

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Here's the Cisco 1131AG AP
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The is one of the two clients I am responsible for. I spent all of tuesday rebuilding their second hypervisor when it went down.

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2x HP DL360 G6s (2x Xeon X5550, 12GB RAM, 2x 146GB SCSIs in RAID 1 Windows Server 2008 R2)
HP MSA2312 SAN 6x 450GB SAS drives connected to the servers via dual 1GB ethernet.
HP Procurve 1810G (Top of the Rack)
Sonicwall SSL-VPN2000
 
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