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Network pics thread

whats up with the yellow patch cable between the BMCs on the 2050 heads agrikk? (aside from it bieng a big ball of cable to go 5")
 
Wow. Some oooold pics!


schapman43 said:
Is that cable ladder mounted upside down?
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Hah hah hah. You know, I never once noticed it and I was in and out of that room for a good eighteen months.

+1 spot check. Well, no matter because we aren't in that building anymore and all that gear has been left behind, upside down ladder and all. :)

Berg0 said:
whats up with the yellow patch cable between the BMCs on the 2050 heads agrikk? (aside from it bieng a big ball of cable to go 5")
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It's a crossover cable for heartbeats. The heads act in active/active mode with one disk aggregate each, but in the event that one head dies both aggregates will flip to the remaining head. The heartbeat cable is for all of the "Are you up? Yes." communication between the heads. I realized when I was setting it up that I didn't have a crossover handy so off to Office Depot for whatever they had. It was since replaced with a nice stubby crossover, but never bothered to update the pic.
 
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Hello group, first time posting here. I just acquired a mess of Cisco equipment, I am planning setting up a serious lab at home. Can I get some guidance as to how to set up the rack (Lab), I also am gong back to school in January to work on my Cisco certifications. Here is a list of what I have:

CISCO
SERIES MODEL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER LINK
2900 WS-2924-XL
3100 WS-3100B
PIX-515E PIX-515E
3100 WS-3100B
2900 WS-2924-XL
VPN3000
2600 CISCO-2611
2600 CISCO-2610
2600 CISCO-2620
2600 CISCO-2610
2900 WS-C2912-XL-EN
2900 WS-C2912-XL-EN
2500 CISCO-2501
2600 CISCO-2611
2500 CISCO-2501
3620
2950 WS-2950-24
2950 WS-2950-24
2950 WS-2950-24
1900 WS-C1924-A
1900 WS-C1912-A
1900 WS-C1912-A
1900 WS-C1912-A
3500 WS-3524-XL-EN

PERIBIT
SR50

IBM 31R3134

McDATA
4300 SPHEREON T3001437

Also a two 42U server racks
 
Pics or we won't help you. :)

(You might want to start your own thread for this since this is a pics thread, and you are asking for help on something that may well end up being a long discussion on gear setup.)
 
Our houses little network:
Shielded coax line directly from outside to the "Man Cave" once in the man cave it feeds into the modem
From the modem to the little gray Dell, which is loaded with the x86 version of DD-wrt. From there to the Cisco 2900XL(Hey I have one of those suckers too!) and out from there the switch feeds the network and to a WRT54g2 that handles wireless duties, it was the actual router, but it got a little overwhelmed and wireless speeds hovered around 386k a sec. Now it streams HD nicely...

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The white/gray dell is my fiancees pc that she does her homework on. She remote desktops into it from her laptop for now until we get everything setup upstairs in our new place. The white tower is my file/media/ L4D2 server.
The Dell poweredge leaning against the wall is waiting for a use...and the open pc thats half out of the picture is my roommates future media/file server.

Future upgrades are, a Cisco gigabit switch, Like this. Cat6, and a wireless N access point. And a TV-tuner card for the file server.
 
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cyr0n_k0r said:
Your wiring method (although pretty) is wasteful.

Why are you patching ports on the patch panel that don't even have anything wired to them? You're wasting your clients money billing them for more patch cables then they need, and probably your port utilization percentages for those switches is super low, so you're putting in more switches then what is needed too.

If you were a vendor trying to pull that crap at my job I'd fire you.
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Wow settle down man. It's nice to buy all the patch cables at one time to make sure you end up with matching cables for the entire build out. Thinking ahead and spending a few extra dollars is hardly a fireable offence!
 
"Originally Posted by cyr0n_k0r
Your wiring method (although pretty) is wasteful.

Why are you patching ports on the patch panel that don't even have anything wired to them? You're wasting your clients money billing them for more patch cables then they need, and probably your port utilization percentages for those switches is super low, so you're putting in more switches then what is needed too.

If you were a vendor trying to pull that crap at my job I'd fire you."

MY TURN:

If you were to wire it half ass at our workplace I would fire you! :) "Why would i want to pay someone to wire only what we are using now, and then when we need to add more they charge me again, maybe even more than before with some bullsh** saying "oh the economy, is this and that" or "We have to open it again, and drill new pipe...""

I would gladly pay to be future-proofed than pay more to add and add and add...

EDIT: The bottom half is an example, not a direct shot. Note the smile...Yes wire your own panel. #2 added quotes 2nd batch of quote marks.
 
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schapman43 said:
Wow settle down man. It's nice to buy all the patch cables at one time to make sure you end up with matching cables for the entire build out. Thinking ahead and spending a few extra dollars is hardly a fireable offence!
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NTAuthourity said:
MY TURN:

If you were to wire it half ass at our workplace I would fire you! :) Why would i want to pay someone to wire only what we are using now, and then when we need to add more they charge me again, maybe even more than before with some bullsh** saying "oh the economy, is this and that" or "We have to open it again, and drill new pipe..."

I would gladly pay to be future-proofed than pay more to add and add and add...
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You guys crack me up, that was from way back in April this year. No need to rehash what was already laid to rest back then. Read the rest of the page after that post cyr0n_k0r posted to see what I mean.
 
No doubt. The topic was discussed to death.

Oh, and NTAuthority, If you need to move or change something (at the patch panel, which is what we were talking about) do it YOURSELF. If you need to pay a vendor to come out and do simple cable patching I'm worried.

But what I think is that you mis-read the post thinking I was talking about not wiring things *behind* the patch panel (which is not the case)
 
Forgive me for staying logged in....Lets try this again..

I am sorry for not going back to April to reread it...and yes it would be damn sad to have to call someone in to do that panel; to switch, but it is much easier to wire it all in, and use management to enable or disable any port. Saves a lot of time instead bouncing in and out of a closet, and the job goes way smoother.
 
C7J0yc3 said:
It gets better. We suggested that they buy this switch after they had a network outage. Their on site person got them back up by power cycling the hub, but it was stuck at 10, we tried everything we could think of to get it to go back to 100, but it just wouldn't do it. We thought maybe a firmware update, but 3Com doesn't even have it on their site anymore.

To say the least I am looking forward to the swap. I am also looking forward to replacing their Compaq Proliant (not HP, Compaq) DL380 G1 / G2s with new hardware very soon when they finally approve the P2V conversion project we have proposed for them. The network got put in in early 2001, and they really haven't upgraded since. The only upgrade I have seen is a 4TB buffalo terastation as a Backup NAS.

In unrelated news, the pieces of network I carry with me everywhere (this was taken right before a touchup)

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And the other ones

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Anyone think they are more of a geek then me?
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Geek or freak? What the hell man, what happens when those standards are outdated? LOL, just giving you a hard time.
 
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just picked up this rack for nothing :) did have to drive 5 hours round trip to get it.... as well as removing the back door from my car to fit it in

gonna order some rackmount cases and put my WHS (vail) in there as well as the CCNA lab im building in december

ive got some extra computers laying around i might put in there as well as a untangle box or something

edit for people with goodeyes lol... should point out that computer in the background is not my main computer... nor is that my chair... that would suck lol its actually my WHS i just setup (backup rig w/ c2d in my sig)
 
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looks too shallow, i have one just like it in my basement someone can have if they wanna come get it!
 
aaronearles said:
looks too shallow, i have one just like it in my basement someone can have if they wanna come get it!
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talking about mine? its about 30-32 inches deep

can anyone identify this brand?? i dunno if this is even a brand logo... there is 0 markings on this rack besides these on the glass
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yeah if it's 30-32 exterior, it's a little too shallow for most servers, or at least it'll be a tight fit, but if you're putting custom built servers then it should be fine.
 
aaronearles said:
yeah if it's 30-32 exterior, it's a little too shallow for most servers, or at least it'll be a tight fit, but if you're putting custom built servers then it should be fine.
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30-32 interior... but yeah most are gonna be my normal desktops put into some 3u/4u cases
 
I once drove 12 hours round trip to pick up a pair of network applience 42U racks for $200 each.
Fortunatly I had family with me and we sort of turned it into a little holiday sort of thing, we had planned to go a few weekends later anyway, so we just bumped it up so I could get more toys :D
 
man... thankfully most of the gear I buy is within 10 miles...

actually I just checked, the furthest I've driven for a craigslist purchase is 28 miles, and that was a GTX260 for $80 back when they were new-ish, and I've bought/sold A LOT of crap on CL.
 
aaronearles said:
man... thankfully most of the gear I buy is within 10 miles...

actually I just checked, the furthest I've driven for a craigslist purchase is 28 miles, and that was a GTX260 for $80 back when they were new-ish, and I've bought/sold A LOT of crap on CL.
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Out of curiosity, where are you at? I drive into Denver or Colorado Springs for most stuff.
 
Berg0 said:
I once drove 12 hours round trip to pick up a pair of network applience 42U racks for $200 each.
Fortunatly I had family with me and we sort of turned it into a little holiday sort of thing, we had planned to go a few weekends later anyway, so we just bumped it up so I could get more toys :D
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That is a heck of a deal, Would they let you do that again if you got another deal? I know ours wouldn't lol.
 
amazing deal, they were R200 racks, with 4 zero U PDU's in each, completely loaded with static rails, worth about a good $5000-$6000 new IIRC.

actually ended up selling one when I first got them to completely cover the cost of the trip and both racks, then just last month brought the other one to work after buying a new FAS2050 and 4 new shelves. Closed out one of my branch offices and got the Dell 42U rack out of there. Just as good for my home lab :)
 
schapman43 said:
Out of curiosity, where are you at? I drive into Denver or Colorado Springs for most stuff.
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I'm in the metro detroit area, this made me curious so I searched my gmail for messages tagged craigslist, 861 conversations in the last 3 years. Never kept track of how much I actually bought or sold though.
 
In the name of networks porn you chatter boxes ;)

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The red cable simulates the point to point wifi that we are getting.

We are upgrading switching for the place we just took over. Still waiting on the Point to Point wifi and phone stuff. Should all be in this week.
 
Hahaha, I know I wish they would not put the name on the box. I get that all the time searching on Craigslist and whatever, but it's even better that dashpuppy just did it.
 
Seeing as the old thread was a bit long, and devolved into a discussion, here's the new 2011 Network Pics thread.

The Guidelines:
  1. You MUST post a pic, unless continuing discussion / responding. If you don't your post WILL be deleted.
  2. Keep image sizes sane. I don't browse in 160000x20000
  3. Post as many pics as possible in one post. Image "galleries" in individual posts will be deleted.

Since some of you have gotten your panties in a bunch over this, I'll clarify what will stand:

Conversations on a specific pic will be allowed, within reason

Offtopic BS and calling out other members, arguing semantics and other nonsense will not.

Several people have already received infractions for pushing the issue - don't be one of them.
 
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