Network pics thread

Messy, but with a circuit switched phone system (before my time), it's what I have to deal with. All in all though, it's pretty clean and organized.

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A rack that I setup at work (secondary data "closet" on the manufacturing floor):

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The racks Groweth...

Now with 100% more Carrier Ethernet and some old Juniper. Kind of useless right now, but won't be shortly. I'll be working on my MEF-CECP after finishing up the CCNP R&S.

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Nice! How does that two post rack hold up without being bolted? or is yours bolted down? Just wondering because I just acquired one from work and I would rather not bolt it down if I dont have to. I only have 6 routers, 5 switches, console terminal, and a couple of patch panels. I would assume if I keep them rather low or in the middle I could get by with not bolting it down. :)
Thanks.
 
They are fairly stable unbolted with light network gear. Some people bolt them to 2x4s to give them more stability.
 
Racked my new firewall! Dashpuppy, I finally used your server lol.

Hmm where has he been, have not seen him in a while.



The old server:



I updated to pfsense 2 and it was no longer able to keep up with my ADSL and capping out at about 2mbps. Not sure what I'll use that server for now, might use it as a testing server or something. I eventually want to setup a little cisco/network lab, so it could act as an end point or something. It has 4 nics in it which can come in handy for stuff.

And yeah, it's really dusty. Been doing basement renos. Final goal is to have the server room nice and sealed with filtered air ventilation.
 
Horgrim: thats better than a lot of what the US has!

Maybe, i don't know really, no friends in the US.

However, at my parents house there is a 100/100 line for 16$ per month... and they only use it once-twice a month to pay bills or read emails ( 60+ years old ).

BTW - You have a lot of cheap servers/rack enclosures etc. In Poland a used one ( old, rusty, some of the pieces missing like one rack rail is gone ) is priced at almost 300$
 
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For example, until recently, i only had 3/.768 DSL at my home for 6 years. It was about $40/mo. I recently was upgraded to 24/2 VDSL and its about $50/mo. This upgrade was made available by a new DSLAM in my area.

I live about an hour outside of Atlanta, Georgia which is one of the largest cities in the southeast US.
 
Maybe, i don't know really, no friends in the US.

However, at my parents house there is a 100/100 line for 16$ per month... and they only use it once-twice a month to pay bills or read emails ( 60+ years old ).

I have a 10Mbps/1Mbps connection, and pay $70/month, as there is nothing else in my area. US :(
 
My $20 project so everything wasn't laying around in a stack






rack top to bottom:
d-link des-1252
3com Superstack III 24 port gigabit switch
routerboard 2011UAS-RM
2x Allied Telesyn Switches being used as filler
2x Rackable 2U running ESXi 5.0, opteron 280 16GB
1x Rackable 2U waiting on more ram
1X Rackable 2U storage server opteron 280 8GB running FreeNas (ZFS) presenting NFS to ESXi boxes
Fiber Channel Array 14x 250GB 10k RPM

Modem is a Motorola NVG589 for my AT&T Uverse 45/5 Service

Next pic is a RB750UP for POE to my 3 access points

Last pic shows my Zoom cable modem (for comcast, currently down in the pic, as usual) and my 2 HDHomerun Prime tuners.
 
Nice setup. I'm getting my fibre installed next Monday, I so can't wait!

Been doing a little server room work with 2x4's myself too. :D

Started on my battery rack:




I cut all the plywood pieces today, and everything is more or less ready to be assembled. Once the rack itself is done I will then cut the side panels and doors. It will be pretty solid.

I also want to build an enclosure around my existing 4 post rack, to add some cable management stuff and many power outlets. Basically 2x6 "U";s on each side with small strips of wood to shove cables inside. Poor man's finger duct basically.
 
Took some photos of network rack at my workplace ( i'm not an IT guy, computers and networking are just my hobby ).

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the cables go up into the ceiling

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and into wall plugs in over 30 rooms

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But the question is, does it work despite the poor cable management?

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Yes, it does.
 
Took some photos of network rack at my workplace ( i'm not an IT guy, computers and networking are just my hobby ).


the cables go up into the ceiling



and into wall plugs in over 30 rooms



But the question is, does it work despite the poor cable management?



Yes, it does.

I like how you're using all those cable management brackets as spacers, instead of for managing the cables.
 
I like how you're using all those cable management brackets as spacers, instead of for managing the cables.

Some contractors were hired to do all the cabling and mounting, i just took the photo ;) i'm a PhD student in materials engineering, i just like computers and networking :)
 
As the kids say, "It's gettin real in here"

I've made a few acquisitions to help with some carrier ethernet training for work, and towards the MEF certification, and to provide the lab that my employer won't provide so our lower level Analyst/Engineers can be proficient at their jobs.

The rack selling business is up and down, but I think I can make a go of it. People have been happy with the first few I've sold.

If interested, I have several listed:

http://www.ccnporbust.blogspot.com/p/e-bay-rack-and-item-listings.html

I've made some good deals on E-bay for the Carrier ethernet equipment, and access servers lately. I'm getting pretty close to being ready to test for CCNP Switch, and once I finish the CCNP, I'll likely unload the 1841's and other CCNP switches and pick up another SRX210 and two EX2200's, and be able to build full e-line and e-tree services in the lab.

I've added:

  • Cyclades TS3000 Terminal server (linux based, and simply blows Cisco's old 2509-11 out of the water)
  • ADVA GE206F - Carrier Ethernet switch which we use in our network
  • Juniper J2300 w/old Junos(7.3 lol), just a cool host rtr
  • Juniper SRX210H - for those that know a pretty powerful multilayer switch/firewall running 12.1r4.7

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Nice! How does that two post rack hold up without being bolted? or is yours bolted down? Just wondering because I just acquired one from work and I would rather not bolt it down if I dont have to. I only have 6 routers, 5 switches, console terminal, and a couple of patch panels. I would assume if I keep them rather low or in the middle I could get by with not bolting it down. :)
Thanks.

Stable as can be. I knew it would be getting moved around alot, so I did this. And the dual UPS, down low help the stability quite a bit. When I started building the racks, I was going to make a go of it renting racks out as well, so I didn't want someone working on a lab to lose their configs, so everything is protected from the devices to the TACACS/TFTP/Syslog servers. I've been selling out my equipment pretty quickly and turning around the profits to pay for the Juniper stuff, so once I get the rest of the juniper equipment is bought from rack selling, or my CCNP finished ($1k bonus at work) I'll revisit the rack rentals.

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Sonnet Echo Express SE with Myricom 10G-PCIE2-8B2-2S to get my iMac onto the 10GbE network.

Setup in under 30 minutes :D Would have been annoyed otherwise at the cost of these things :rolleyes:

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FC (SAN) switches MDS9020 top one is all my FC disk arrays and initators, but the bottom one is going to be for IP over FC so basically really cheap 4 gbit network

Awesome thread.

FLECOM - nice setup!

The MDS9020 Cisco, do you need a separate license for FCIP - originally (until I found this post) I thought that only the 9120 and greater had FCIP support (I was looking at a 9020 for myself).

I notice you are using EonStor FC arrays? do you have any opinions on the A08U-G2421 8 Bay EonStor? I was thinking of picking one up for my home lab but was worried the performance would be poor (VMware - running 2-4 Web Servers and light DB all Linux based). Alternatively I could bag a A16F-G1A2 but its a huge jump in price.

Got a Dell 8024F and Dell 5524 pretty cheap for the home lab(I work from home....).

Dell 8024F is a little on the noisy side of things though! :eek:

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That's a very nice switch, I've been looking out for one of those but they rarely go for anything less than £800+.

I'll get some pics of my small lab and post up, this is my first post but I've been a long time fan of this site - hey!
 
Sweet stuff everyone! I hear the juniper stuff is pretty nice.


Just got my fibre installed:


Alcatel ONT and UPS (I added that board myself, I don't think they provide it, but they do provide the little shelf)


phone splitter, one wire going down to the patch panel (just below that)


Modem/router. The TVs and my firewall plug into this. That plugs into the ONT.


The HD box / PVR.

So excited! I just can't believe how fast it is. Uploading these pics took like 5 seconds. Crazyness!
 
Awesome thread.

FLECOM - nice setup!

The MDS9020 Cisco, do you need a separate license for FCIP - originally (until I found this post) I thought that only the 9120 and greater had FCIP support (I was looking at a 9020 for myself).

I notice you are using EonStor FC arrays? do you have any opinions on the A08U-G2421 8 Bay EonStor? I was thinking of picking one up for my home lab but was worried the performance would be poor (VMware - running 2-4 Web Servers and light DB all Linux based). Alternatively I could bag a A16F-G1A2 but its a huge jump in price.

no idea about the IP over FC stuff, I don't know if the switch knows it's IP? I guess I will find out! :eek:

also there's a lot of stuff out there about FC over IP but not so much about IP over FC

as far as the EonStor's they are nice, I get decent speeds off of them but I have slow disks (mostly WD Greens) in them since they are just for video and backup storage... so whatever speeds I get are sufficient

one of my arrays has 16x 2tb WD greens in a RAID6 it gets 96MB/s average 185MB/s peak

the newer arrays are much faster than the older ones but either way they are good for bulk storage
 
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I couldn't find much literature on it either, as you say there is plenty on FCIP - if you give it a go and it works I'd be interested to know how you did it as I also have one of those devices now (for a SAN build).

I like those Xserve Arrays too, despite their age they still look cool.
 
Find anything to actually push your connection? I have higher speeds but usually max out around 20mbps up and 40mbps down for any real world stuff :/
 
no idea about the IP over FC stuff, I don't know if the switch knows it's IP? I guess I will find out! :eek:

also there's a lot of stuff out there about FC over IP but not so much about IP over FC

as far as the EonStor's they are nice, I get decent speeds off of them but I have slow disks (mostly WD Greens) in them since they are just for video and backup storage... so whatever speeds I get are sufficient

one of my arrays has 16x 2tb WD greens in a RAID6 it gets 96MB/s average 185MB/s peak

the newer arrays are much faster than the older ones but either way they are good for bulk storage

FCoE is supported by a lot of enterprise class CNA's, but generally a FCP switch won't support ethernet traffic, I've never come across one that did. They are just for FCP, storage, they don't do IP.
 
FCoE is not what I am trying to do... I am trying to do IP over FC using FC cards and hardware to transport IP traffic (some people call this ethernet over FC but thats really not what it is)

http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/71212/README_QLA2xNDIS_Windows.pdf

Interesting, I've got piles of 4Gb Qlogic FC HBA's, I should check the model numbers, I've only ever used them for FCP traffic with my SANs, be interesting to use them as 4Gb NICs. Any idea if that's supported by the VMware HCL?

Just so I'm not spamming the thread with text and no pictures, do you guys still like ubiquiti AP's?

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Interesting, I've got piles of 4Gb Qlogic FC HBA's, I should check the model numbers, I've only ever used them for FCP traffic with my SANs, be interesting to use them as 4Gb NICs. Any idea if that's supported by the VMware HCL?

Just so I'm not spamming the thread with text and no pictures, do you guys still like ubiquiti AP's?

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I have 30+ of them running flawlessly.
 
Awesome, I'm excited to hear it. we'll be rolling out about 50 of them to 9 location over the next month, I'll also take a pic when the Juniper gear hits, lots of SRX gateways and EX series switches to play with soon :)
 
FCoE is not what I am trying to do... I am trying to do IP over FC using FC cards and hardware to transport IP traffic (some people call this ethernet over FC but thats really not what it is)

http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/71212/README_QLA2xNDIS_Windows.pdf

FLECOM do you happen to know the console settings for a Summit 400-48T switch (putty serial settings) in order to access the serial port on the front of the switch? I bought one super cheap but can't get access to it over that port to configure it. I'm quite impressed how silent the fans are in comparison to Dell PowerConnects! Thanks :D
 
FLECOM do you happen to know the console settings for a Summit 400-48T switch (putty serial settings) in order to access the serial port on the front of the switch? I bought one super cheap but can't get access to it over that port to configure it. I'm quite impressed how silent the fans are in comparison to Dell PowerConnects! Thanks :D

Try 9600/8/1/N/Off. Same as Cisco gear. Are you using a Cisco cable or a null modem db9 to db9 cable?

http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/services/Sumhwv60.pdf
 
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