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Network pics thread

houkouonchi said:
Are you talking about the 2U device that the monitor is sitting on top of? That is actually a 1500VA UPS:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842106110&cm_re=2u_UPS-_-42-106-110-_-Product

So not a server.

The FIOS is both load balanced and bonded. I bond the connections via a VPN but I don't route all internet traffic over the VPN (mainly just HTTP, ssh, and some other things in order to get the total speed of both lines over a single connection for http downloads, rsync transfers, etc..)

Here is a speedtest going over the bonded connection VPN connection:

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There are a few ways you can get two ONTs and two FIOS connections but the easiest way is to have both residential and business service. Residential 35/35 is only available with triple play and the whole package cost $99/month with tv/phone + around $10 in taxes so around $110/month. The business 35/35 is also $99 (just internet) and no taxes) so I am paying around $210/month for both. I would get the new 150/35 (its actually 150/65) package but unfortunately my neighborhood is on a bpon splitter and thus the service is not available to me (it is available to several other addresses of people I know who only live a few miles from me though) otherwise I would get one (maybe two) of those connections.

The only better package available for me right now is 50/20 however because of the higher upload I would rather have two 35/35 than two 50/20's. I upload a lot more than I download.
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I wish I could just get Fios period. But that connection is sick! What the up time been like? Also do you run a business from that hardware?
 
Jay_oasis said:
PD

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/potential+difference

Can cause all sorts of problems with switches

If the buildings are attached to each other then you will be fine. Although a couple of runs of fiber and a few sfp modules are still best.
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The buildings are next to each other. Concrete to concrete. We're running maybe a 200' run or 300' at most. It'll go from the basement server room, upstairs, and then out the side of the building into piping, down the side and then in through the roof of the other building (the new buildin they built is twice as heigh.. they only have 1 floor but the ceilings are 12' heigh, which is why theres a height difference)
 
I spie with my little eye, neat patches. Great devices BUT im not a 100% fan of them.

Don't get me wrong they are great, BUT they are expensive, like what $60 a piece or something... i use what i call "cheap patches" which are like $20 each and dont have backs.... but i use them all the time, great. We used neat patches at our office since my boss wanted them, all my other clients get "cheap patches" as i call em which you can see in most of my photos ive posted
 
Vengance_01 said:
I wish I could just get Fios period. But that connection is sick! What the up time been like? Also do you run a business from that hardware?
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In the 8 months I have had the connections I have only gone down when I had a power outage and my UPS could not keep my equipment on long enough so other than that no outages. Nope don't run a business, its all for me =)
 
Hadrien said:
Yikes. Had a good one today. Got to rip out one of my own installs that has been bothering me for over a year.

So I started with this clusterfsck that I am horribly ashamed of
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You have a mix and match of foundry and HP? Haven't seen a foundry switch in a while. Since I left the hospital i worked at
 
calvinj said:
You have a mix and match of foundry and HP? Haven't seen a foundry switch in a while. Since I left the hospital i worked at
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The foundry is actually new to me as well. I needed a 48 port Gigabit switch with Poe. The cheapest procurve with those specs is like 4 grand. I found these foundry switches used and loaded out for like 1250. It was a hard deal to pass up. After messing with a few of them I think I am liking them more than my procurves. Except maybe the 3400cl's we have. Those are tough switches to beat for the money.

And yea, foundry got bought out by brocade, but they are still selling most of the switches that foundry offered with no changes.
 
houkouonchi said:
In the 8 months I have had the connections I have only gone down when I had a power outage and my UPS could not keep my equipment on long enough so other than that no outages. Nope don't run a business, its all for me =)
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Damn you got more hardware then most small business :D
 
Hadrien said:
And yea, foundry got bought out by brocade, but they are still selling most of the switches that foundry offered with no changes.
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I knew brocade bought them out, but it still hasn't clicked with me yet. The hospital I worked at was an entire foundry shop. Not sure if they will stay that way. They are kind of heading backwards from you. Have Foundry. Like them. Looking at HP because of the lifetime warantee
 
dashpuppy said:
What's that suppose to mean ?
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Connecting a Fiber HBA from a server to a fiber port on an ethernet switch won't work if your intent is to try to assign an IP address somehow to your HBA and use it as a NIC. The interfaces might match up, but you won't get the results you are looking for.

Fiber HBAs are used in SAN to connect through a switch to a storage array and use a different identification method and protocol (google World Wide Name).

I think they've developed a Fiber-channel-over-ethernet (FCoE) specification to allow fiber channel traffic to be passed over ethernet switches, but it's still SAN traffic being passed as opposed to TCP/IP traffic.

Fiber ports on switches are designed for interconnects between switches, not between sitches and hosts.
 
agrikk said:
Connecting a Fiber HBA from a server to a fiber port on an ethernet switch won't work if your intent is to try to assign an IP address somehow to your HBA and use it as a NIC. The interfaces might match up, but you won't get the results you are looking for.

Fiber HBAs are used in SAN to connect through a switch to a storage array and use a different identification method and protocol (google World Wide Name).

I think they've developed a Fiber-channel-over-ethernet (FCoE) specification to allow fiber channel traffic to be passed over ethernet switches, but it's still SAN traffic being passed as opposed to TCP/IP traffic.

Fiber ports on switches are designed for interconnects between switches, not between sitches and hosts.
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I don't think he plans to connect it to an HBA, just a fiber NIC instead of using copper ethernet cables. If that's the case that may not work too well based on the jumpers he posted as they're Single Mode jumpers and not Multi Mode like you'd normally see in a short haul situation like that. Probably have to get some inline attenuators to knock the signal down.
 
The day I got Fios:
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After some quick tidying up:
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Wasn't good enough so I really dug in this evening and got things looking much better:
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Macco said:
I don't think he plans to connect it to an HBA, just a fiber NIC instead of using copper ethernet cables. If that's the case that may not work too well based on the jumpers he posted as they're Single Mode jumpers and not Multi Mode like you'd normally see in a short haul situation like that. Probably have to get some inline attenuators to knock the signal down.
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I was thinking about putting a fiber ethernet card into my untangle firewall and run that into the fiber port on the switch, just to play with fiber.
 
Looks way better without the "E-home" box! but why the craptiontec instead of 100Base off the ONT into your own device?
 
That would be fun indeed, but I wonder how well untangle handles fiber NIC's..many drivers for all or just some?
 
Looks like you've got some research to do figuring out what jumpers, connectors, cards and SFP's you need.
 
NTAuthourity said:
Looks way better without the "E-home" box! but why the craptiontec instead of 100Base off the ONT into your own device?
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Thanks! I've been wanting to pull that box out since I moved in :cool:

I have fios TV as well. Seems to work better with the actiontec then without :p
It's really not all that bad of a router.
 
Exactly what kind of stealthy, invisible or possibly cloaked networking device are these cables plugged into and where can I get one?

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LOL thats a new router nasa is developing for the space shuttle... they dont have much space up there so its a wireless-rj router... wireless-n and wireless rj45 built on

im not a big fan of those white boxes... i see them all over in my industry but when i do things i always put wal-mounted server cabinets on... about the same price really and the price of those cat5 termination blocks is about the same as 12 or 24 port patch panel
 
f1y--so sorry, that looks like a pain to work with, it screams sparky!
hadrien-great improvement! just wondering why you skipped ports on the patch panel
pwrusr-good job ripping out the media panel, I hate those things! Are those push-on coax fittings though?
 
jeffmoss26 said:
pwrusr-good job ripping out the media panel, I hate those things! Are those push-on coax fittings though?
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Looks like he re-terminated them with compression fittings, good call on that one :D(i always use them).

Looks worlds better without the canned media install(love the demarc look), seems like all new townhome/condo complexes are doing this these days.
 
jeffmoss26 said:
f1y--so sorry, that looks like a pain to work with, it screams sparky!
hadrien-great improvement! just wondering why you skipped ports on the patch panel
pwrusr-good job ripping out the media panel, I hate those things! Are those push-on coax fittings though?
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looks like compression fittings.

Media panels are ok fir coax and some small phone cable stuff, other than that they suck for networking, to shallow and to small and hardly any air flow for switches and stuff.
 
What makes it worse is when you have the house contractors install it and they cant install it themselves! lol All the cables and panels in shambles it's nucking futs...
 
Thats how the condo was when I moved in.

9 total wall jack locations. They ran 1 cate 5e and 1 RG-6 to each spot.

Then in the tiny ass can they put in one 1x16 phone module, crimped an RJ-45 to each Cat 5e cable and plugged it in. They left the coax alone, even though they put in combo RJ-11/Coax wal plates everywhere.

There's barely enough room in the can for the two patch modules I put in, the DirecTv SWM-16 module, and the signal amp for the antenna.

I have to leave the lid off so the SWM-16 doesn't get too hot.

If we were going to be here for more than two years I'd rip it all out.
 
MinPins said:
Exactly what kind of stealthy, invisible or possibly cloaked networking device are these cables plugged into and where can I get one?

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad227/Lu-Max/Etc/img20101220124059.jpg
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Oh snap, that picture wasn't supposed to be uploaded! :eek:
...yeah I snapped that one just before the fios installer handed the actiontech router to me :p


Adam said:
LOL thats a new router nasa is developing for the space shuttle... they dont have much space up there so its a wireless-rj router... wireless-n and wireless rj45 built on

im not a big fan of those white boxes... i see them all over in my industry but when i do things i always put wal-mounted server cabinets on... about the same price really and the price of those cat5 termination blocks is about the same as 12 or 24 port patch panel
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shhhhhhhhhh, that's supposed to be a seequit! :eek::D

My next project is a wall mount rack, but I'm thinking it will be one like this because of the limited amount of room in the wire closet. If I find a full on wall 12-20u mount rack for a low price I might be able to mount it on the other side of the closet. But like I said it's tight in there it's like 6x4x6 (LxWxH) feet.


jeffmoss26 said:
pwrusr-good job ripping out the media panel, I hate those things! Are those push-on coax fittings though?
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I hated looking at it, it might be cool if it was installed properly (inside the wall vs on the wall), but it wasn't and honestly I like the look and freedom this setup offers. Though the media cabinet would likely be good in a home that has kids that are curious and love to get into stuff.

Nope they are not push on fittings. They are all screw-on coax.


xphil3 said:
Looks worlds better without the canned media install(love the demarc look), seems like all new townhome/condo complexes are doing this these days.
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Thanks man, I was hoping this was [H] approved. looks like I was successful :D :cool:


dashpuppy said:
looks like compression fittings.

Media panels are ok fir coax and some small phone cable stuff, other than that they suck for networking, to shallow and to small and hardly any air flow for switches and stuff.
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That's a good point. I always left the front cover off because of air flow issues. If airflow is a concern you could always pop a couple of vent holes with some quiet low CFM fans on the front panel ;)
As I said a little earlier in this post I like the looks of this rack from black box the best so far for my needs.
 
Yeah those are all PPC connectors, but two of them look like they have some kind of extra boot on them...wasn't sure what that was.
 
pwrusr said:
Oh snap, that picture wasn't supposed to be uploaded! :eek:
...yeah I snapped that one just before the fios installer handed the actiontech router to me :p



shhhhhhhhhh, that's supposed to be a seequit! :eek::D

My next project is a wall mount rack, but I'm thinking it will be one like this because of the limited amount of room in the wire closet. If I find a full on wall 12-20u mount rack for a low price I might be able to mount it on the other side of the closet. But like I said it's tight in there it's like 6x4x6 (LxWxH) feet.



I hated looking at it, it might be cool if it was installed properly (inside the wall vs on the wall), but it wasn't and honestly I like the look and freedom this setup offers. Though the media cabinet would likely be good in a home that has kids that are curious and love to get into stuff.

Nope they are not push on fittings. They are all screw-on coax.



Thanks man, I was hoping this was [H] approved. looks like I was successful :D :cool:



That's a good point. I always left the front cover off because of air flow issues. If airflow is a concern you could always pop a couple of vent holes with some quiet low CFM fans on the front panel ;)
As I said a little earlier in this post I like the looks of this rack from black box the best so far for my needs.
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Yes thats a really nice box, i like that.!!
 
And here I was all excited with our XenBoxen.

The two Fibre Channel HV's are on the bottom, and the two iSCSI HV's are naturally on the top of the list; marked iscsi-pool.

Fiber HV Specs (times 2 HV's)
2 x AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz (16 cores total per HV)
8 x 8GB DDR3 Quad Pumped ECC Registered (64GB total per HV)
2 x 146GB SAS RAID1, because I was too stupid to boot from flash.
They are attached to our NetApp Array via 2 Fibre switches (pictured some posts ago)

iSCSI HV's (two also)
1 x AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz (8 cores total per HV)
4 x 4GB DDR3 Quad Pumped ECC Registered (16GB total per HV, soon to be 32GB per this weekend)
Sata Boot (for now also)

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I find myself virtualizing more servers every day... :D
 
Woa, 24 cores lool. That's crazy. You could have 24 VMs running on that and they pretty much have a dedicated cpu lol. Is that a HP server?
 
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