Network pics thread

Thought I would post an update to my network. Unfortunately I was too lazy to hunt down our real camera so you get the cell phone picture:

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Cisco 2621 router for use in PeerIX Project and segregate lab and home networks (ThePinkLocation)
Napera Cobalt Beta 24-port Gigabit Switch (AmputGoatee)
Cisco 3524XL-PWR 24-port PoE switch. (TheMeatStamp)
Rackable Systems P4 2.66GHz/1GB RAM/40GB SATA (Untangle UTM) (TheLeatherEnema)
Rackable Systems Dual 3GHz Xeon/3GB RAM/4x250GB SATA (Windows Home Server) (SERVEROUS)
Rackable Systems 2x Dual-Core 2GHz Opteron/8GB RAM/160GB SATA (ESXi 4.0) (FRY)
Rackable Systems 2x Dual-Core 2GHz Opteron/8GB RAM/160GB SATA (ESX 4.0) (BENDER)
Rackable Systems Dual 2.2GHz Opteron/8GB RAM/2x 74GB Rapter, 4x 750GB Seagate (OpenFiler) (SANITY)

Tried out FreeNAS on SANITY this evening and it pissed me off so I wiped it and am installing OpenFiler on it now, will probably try Nexanta, too. Will settle on whichever one I like better. This box will probably end up being my Windows Home Server after the new 2008 based version is released and I finish with my VMware VCP studies/certification. If I ever manage to get around to doing that . . . .
 
I'm going to help revive this network porn too!

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New Toys. Good news.. Never touched Juniper before in my life. Going to have fun with this one
 
MOAR posts

my shed full o' severs:
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My Basement:
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Just a few pics of some of our residence hall distribution racks. Blue phone line was not my doing...too messy for my liking.

3 x 3560
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2 x 3560 (This same setup is on 3 floors) - Plenty of room for VOIP expansion in the future.
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Speaking of residence halls at school, I'll have to ask my boss if he will let me take some pictures of some of the network closets in the dorms. I'm a Residential Technology Assistant at Baylor University as my federal work-study.
 
I'm going to help revive this network porn too!

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New Toys. Good news.. Never touched Juniper before in my life. Going to have fun with this one

Wait, please tell me that is for work.
 
$3,500 is pricey, but then some of us choose to build home labs instead of buying boats or old cars to restore.

That fits my story. Don't have a boat nor do i have a liking for old cars. Networking equipment is my thing. Same with servers
 
I wish that was my home router. However I would consider selling my soul for $3,500 to get one

I was just going to say. I have several of them that I use and I wouldn't have minded a spare unit as a standby.

You never know with these posters, some people have some really nice hardware for really pointless uses as they get them free from their company, etc.
 
I was just going to say. I have several of them that I use and I wouldn't have minded a spare unit as a standby.

You never know with these posters, some people have some really nice hardware for really pointless uses as they get them free from their company, etc.

Again I wish. If we were getting Juniper for free I would go with it.
 
New hardware in. More to come so stay tuned.......
Taken with a cell phone so some of the pics arent' that great.
Organization is moving to a new building so I'll cronicle the move with the new hardware we have puchased for there along with the move of the older hardware (Dell 2950, 1950, Cisco Callmanager). New 4 and 2 post racks coming in along with 4 HP 48port GB switches and etc.

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UPDATE: Here is some pics of the cleaned out network room that all this hardware will be going into. We just got done assembling the two racks. One a two post and the other a four post kendall howard. We had a third party come in and tone out all the runs and terminate them at both ends. I installed the four HP 48 port GB switches along with an APC 1500 and APC verticle PDU.

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UPDATE: Just got the New Fortinet hardware in. Mmmmmmm Fortinet.

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Re-Racked some servers tonight because apparently I can't count U Space.

Not Pictures is the powervault 210 and my poweredge 2600

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I like them, especially the Sun sitting in the middle :)

May I ask you if you've installed the servers on rails or without, calvinj?
 
Nice, how are the R710's? I plan on ordering a couple racks worth of these. We have a couple 2950s and 1950s right now... Right now my mirror network is costing me around 450k, I still haven't included the 2x PS6500 Equal Logic expansions =[
 
Nice, how are the R710's? I plan on ordering a couple racks worth of these. We have a couple 2950s and 1950s right now... Right now my mirror network is costing me around 450k, I still haven't included the 2x PS6500 Equal Logic expansions =[

The R710's are pretty nice. 4 built in NIC ports, "luggage tag" (like on HPs), enhanced front LCD, tons of memory capacity, lower power consumption, new version of Dell rapid/versa rails and etc.

The only thing I messed up on was the DRAC6. The DRAC5 had one version and it was the hardware card. The new Dell's have DRAC6 "express", "enterprise" and one other model. I ordered the "express" version which is not anything like the DRAC5 as it isn't an actual hardware card like the DRAC5. The express doesn't have it's own NIC port as you have to assign one of the 4 built in NIC's to the DRAC6. I would suggest getting the real thing and go with the DRAC6 enterprise. They are a bit more expensive though. Not really happy with the DRAC6 changes.
 
is that your stuff or for work or a client?

The Juniper is the clients. This rack is mine and all of the stuff in it is partly mine and partly a guy I work with (One bed room apts leave no room for things and i have a 2 story house with the room).

DieTa said:
I like them, especially the Sun sitting in the middle

May I ask you if you've installed the servers on rails or without, calvinj?

Borrowed the sun server from work all thought I have a feeling they are not going to be asking for it back anytime soon. Use to be for Nagios. Installed ubuntu 6.06 on it and blew it up trying to install some linux mail. Have a feeling I'm going to offer it out to the peerix project as a internal linux dns server.

Also I have rails for everything. The only thing that doesn't have rails are the 2 thin foot print dells which are resting on top of the intel whitebox server with the rails :D

That was part of our requirement for the lab. We had to do this semi professionally. AKA rail kits when possible
 


This is the bandwidth that I have while sitting on my classroom network behind two IPFILTER firewalls that I built.
 
Not network related, but thought it would give someone a laugh

Tonight for Dinner. Steak with a side of 120 gb hard drive:

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^ i never had good luck with that.

we send our drives to gillware
 
^ i never had good luck with that.

we send our drives to gillware

Too cheap to do it..

120 gb maxtor:
lasted 5 years in as i've owned it
purchased used from ebay
hit hard as it was holding lots of iso's for vmware and etc
hit hard for file serving purposes.

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I'm ok with it dying. As long as I can get some more data off from it
 
I've got an update coming, just need to take some pics!

Added a self-build router and a couple more lines for other rooms (living room and basement), plus I have another router (a Nokia 230) coming sometime in the near future. I also added an ancient 12-port 10mbit hub for laughs :p

EDIT: The pics! I apologize for the camera-phone quality, it's all I have!

Whole rack:
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Close-up of patch and switch, and ancient hub that I just happened to have ;)
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The servers. Top is my router (pfSense), bottom is my primary server (S01-Chaos) that houses my 2.8TiB RAID array and my web server.
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My ghetto-tastic!(tm) WAP (an old DGL with N, to which I added a bunch of small copper GDDR heatsinks to replace the crappy, overheating stock plastic ones)
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Small Update :D


Network Rack:

2948g-l3
2948g x2
1751
2620

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Temp pix to feed the internet:

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All of the Server Rack:

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Top Half:

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Bottom Half:

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