Works here and on my phone's 3G. :/
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Works here and on my phone's 3G. :/
sadly after spending $150 on a truck hire and fuel the wife went nuts and said I wasn't to get it. What a wast of money!
Never get married!
I am proper gutted, I have been looking for one for ages and it my birthday present to myself
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Woah, wait what? Where in NW Ohio?
You can PM me if you want too, just curious. I live in NW Ohio.
EDIT: Yes i'm slow and no cool pics cause i'm unemployed atm.
Red Squirrel
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compslckr, not sure what project that's for, but are you sure you'll have enough ports?
or a school
I've designed and implemented over 100 edges switch networks for various K-12 school systems.
agrikk
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What school district has the cash to fund fiber runs between schools? Or are you saying fiber between buildings?
apparently you're not familiar with the e-rate program. Or Title II grants, or bonds.
Trust me, working at a school district doesn't always mean you're stuck with 15 year old stuff.
My district has OM2 fiber between buildings at each site, and a private fiber WAN connecting each of our schools provided by a local ISP.
Next summer we are upgrading to OM3 fiber between buildings (which can do 10gig-E and 40gig maybe) and pushing out WAN links to 200mbps site to site.
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You would be surprised. I do a lot of work for schools. A lot of time they go in on fiber projects with city/county governments or Universities. One of my larger school districts has about 30 buildings and over half of them are connected with fiber because of this. There are a few that they've had to pay for entirely out of pocket but most of them weren't like that. They also run all Cisco 3750, 3560 or 2960 switches as they get killer discounts from Cisco.
Cisco's discounts to EDU is usually 60% off list. Then the partners/integrators get a bigger discount on top of that for all the volume which most districts buy from (districts not usually buy directly from cisco, some do though) And if you're a district that qualifies for e-rate you can end up only paying 10 or 15% of that 40% while uncle sam picks up the rest.
MS licensing is even better. It's like 90% off or something. It's crazy how cheap our MS licensing costs. And with their new EES program its insane.
MS licensing is even better. It's like 90% off or something. It's crazy how cheap our MS licensing costs. And with their new EES program its insane.
Atherton213
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Figure I'll add my lame stuff to get us back on pictures, lol
My core router (middle firebox), and the not installed/probably never will be used CARP partner. Both are Firebox X Cores with 1.4GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, and 4GB Microdrive running pfSense 2.0. Rack ears just removed for easy access.
Under them is an Intel Atom 330 1u server running Server 2008 that handles NAS/Seedbox/VMs/Pandora timeshifting proxy
more info on those firebox x cores please
They will be spread out across 16 idf cabinets in a 400,000 square foot expansion for a distribution center. Their main purpose will be for Access Points, user network connectivity, and automation controls.
The fiber switches connect the IDF 3750 switches back to the MDF.
more info on those firebox x cores please
haha, what would you like to know?
The LCDs work with LCDProc (system information, CPU/RAM usage graph), and recently someone made a program that makes the "Armed/Secure" light turn from red to green when the firewall is sucessfully booted, and can even flash red if the firewall throws an error or something.
They look cool, and work well. My only issue is 100Mb/s Realtek NICs, but eh... They work better than they used to with pfSEnse.
I have more than these two, and I sometimes sell them on ebay once I can be sure they're good hardware (as most of these already have spent 7+ years of service) and find the proper RAM for them (seems to be VERY picky about what 512MB sticks will properly show up as 512MB and not 256MB.)
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Yep schools tend to have lot of money.
Now let's talk about hospitals. Trying to convince them that they should do a raid 1 or a raid 5 instead of a raid 0 is like pulling teeth. I've seen some pretty bad stuff here. It actually makes me a little weary of where some of my medical information ends up.
We also had a fax server (very critical here) with a single drive. Took a good year before they finally let us make a raid 1 array.
Network wise we're actually not too too bad though, but lot of stuff I would have done different from the start.
Atherton213
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whats the model number of the ones you have there... i was always intrested in building a pfsense box and wanted something low power...something 1u like this looks perfect... i just put a bid on ebay for an x700 to play with
They're all either (original software) Firebox X500s, X700s, X1000, and X2500s. Which are all the (hardware) model number of R6264S.
Don't pay anymore than $40 before shipping unless you need one now, as they usually go for $25-33. Patience will snag a good one. Be careful you don't get screwed on shipping, anything more than $25 is them scamming you.
But I should say, they're LOWER power, not LOW power. I'd say they're 35-50 watts, compared to an intel atom 1u server which could be sub-15 watts. That said, its ~$50 vs $300. You might not even ever save anything.
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Sorry to derail the thread, but as other people said, e-rate, grants and bonds. More specifically, here in Ohio, OSFC. (State funds ~80% of the new k-12 schools)
You'd be surprised, and I'm sure if you searched this thread you'll see some pictures I've posted. 10G redundant links everywhere isn't out of the norm. Why, because they're designed to last double the lifespan of a regular network.
Atherton213
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yeah lower power... lol im winning one for like $20 ($35 w/ shipping) and that is def better than putting together an atom system for $200-$300
Well I haven't posted anything picture wise for a while so here is our new firewall for our California office. Hopefully soon enough I'll have a bunch of pictures to put up. We have a bunch of changes happening at the HQ which in turn should get me on a plane to California to finish up some goodies out there!
Is it actually any good? Of all the Fireboxes I've ever played with, my limits of actually using the real Watchguard software was waiting for "Firebox X2500 - SysA Armed" popping up on the LCD to see if it would boot properly, lol.
The school district in my town a few years ago got a Dept. of Homeland Security grant to put in fiber optic cable between all of the school buildings, the public library, a public meeting building (used for alternative ed right now), the fire station, police station, and town office. It hooks up with a city next door where they monitor security cameras installed at each of those public buildings. They also provide internet service too. It's a pretty neat setup. I'm try to convince the Town office to purchase a backup server so I can put that in one of the other town buildings, connect the servers together via fiber. Would be so nice to do.
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My school district has 6 buildings, all connected by fiber that they either ran themselves or purchased from Adelphia (now Time Warner)
no, its pretty crap, my biggest issue is there is no SNMP and the cost of the upgrades is stupid! I can't use all the ports on the from becuase I don't have the license to use them!
I'd say install something like pfSense on it, if you don't have a license to update the Watchguard stuff, you might have some vulnerabilities.
I do have the licenses just not the full blown license pack for the use of all the interfaces etc. Its a cheek that you have to pay to use the interfaces to be honest.
Another thing about the firebox is they are very noisy! (not that it matters in the datacenter)
Another thing about the firebox is they are very noisy! (not that it matters in the datacenter)
Some of my projects i have on the go at the moment (always far too many... i really should concentrate on one thing at a time!):
1x Cisco 7940 (hooked up to trixbox)
3x HP Proliant Microservers (4x SATA fileserver)
3x SuperMicro Superservers (loaded with intel atom d525 motherboards)
1x Rackable Systems (4x SATA fileserver)
1x Supermicro (15x SATA fileserver)
1x Cisco 7940 (hooked up to trixbox)
3x HP Proliant Microservers (4x SATA fileserver)
3x SuperMicro Superservers (loaded with intel atom d525 motherboards)
1x Rackable Systems (4x SATA fileserver)
1x Supermicro (15x SATA fileserver)
Well I haven't posted anything picture wise for a while so here is our new firewall for our California office. Hopefully soon enough I'll have a bunch of pictures to put up. We have a bunch of changes happening at the HQ which in turn should get me on a plane to California to finish up some goodies out there!
Calvin, i have the little sister to that
the TZ210, and i love it. Have you played with any application software running on the unit ?MINES a mess, because im working on moving stuff around then to a rack,
Application Monitoring,
Dash. I have not upgraded to 5.8 on any of the sonicwalls I have. They are all production machines so I don't want to take the risk. I'm excited for them to release it so I can use the application monitoring for the content filtering and other stuff. Right now I've got 5.6 running and its doing everything I need it to do.
you could always update it and keep old firmware and revert ?
I have 5.6 & 5.8 n mine just in case. I havent experienced any issues with 5.8 yet tho.
I could, but I'm not. Everything I need it to do works with the OS it has now. All though I do want the features of 5.8