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Network pics thread

Since my home setup just consists of two Buffalo wireless routers ... heres my setup at work:
2x Cisco Catalys WS-C3750G switches
1x Cisco 2821 router
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Just recently organized the wires, it used to be spaghetti!
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/usr/home said:
Do you have a wife? Lol. You must have quite a bit of money into that. I is jealous.
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Wedding planned for next year. I wish I had that much stuff at home. I would take the 2350 home if I could.

Vito_Corleone said:
That's at his job. Isn't it cute?
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That's at my last job. Needless to say I would bet it still looks like that too. After I left nobody on staff was really knew what to do with other than pretend to know what to do with it. You know it looks a lot better with the Panduit covers on there. Nobody would really let me take the time to clean it up.

Just happened to snap the picture with the newly installed Cisco AP controllers.
 
calvinj said:
That's at my last job. Needless to say I would bet it still looks like that too. After I left nobody on staff was really knew what to do with other than pretend to know what to do with it. You know it looks a lot better with the Panduit covers on there. Nobody would really let me take the time to clean it up.
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I just meant that it's so tiny.:p
 
Here are some messy pics, we'll call these "Before" (I have yet to buy all requisite gear for the after pics)

New Juniper SRX240's (they'll do 1.5Gbps routing each, doing an active/standby cluster) and new Procurve 5412zl cores w/ POE blades.

Also brought in my Digi CM from home, yay lots o' console ports!

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This is what I did last week (new 2050 filer):
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Got a really good price on this one (I think they're blowing them out as they're getting close to EOL) we'll be moving to a 3000 series FAS in a while I think. This was just to bridge the gap since out 2020 wasn't going too cut.

In the process of specc'ing out my cable management, be a while yet before I have time to redo it, but it's gonna lok nice :)

I think I posted some pics a while back of the 4510R catalyst and the 3550's in my old wiring closets I did the cabling for, I'm picky.
 
You guys all need to invest in some neat patches (http://www.neatpatch.com) or even "cheap patches" (http://www.deepsurplus.com/Network-...ent-2-Hole-Black-PVC-Type-with-Front-Cover-19)

The neat patches are nice, the new ones have holes/gromets for wires out the side/back. But to save a buck i use the "cheap patches" as i call them because they are more then half the price and they work very well (they arnt enclosed is the main difference)

Some have seen this before, but its very neat with a wire manager... so INVEST IN WIRE MANAGERS PLEASE

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Heres some newer photos i took the other week btw:

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The back wall with all the panels in my server room is composed of the phone system, voicemail, access control (2 panels), automation (4 panels), cable connections (we have 1 box dedicated just to splitting the cable), audio connectins (again one box just for this), old access control (for testing)

We sell all the things in our office so naturally we have lots of toys/gadgets hooked up
 
Berg0 said:
Here are some messy pics, we'll call these "Before" (I have yet to buy all requisite gear for the after pics)

New Juniper SRX240's (they'll do 1.5Gbps routing each, doing an active/standby cluster) and new Procurve 5412zl cores w/ POE blades.

Also brought in my Digi CM from home, yay lots o' console ports!

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How do you like those procurve cores? HP Came in last week and did a sales demo on blades and network gear. Looked around and they look pretty cool with everything you can put into those blade chassis.

Also the sonicwall? What happened there ;)
 
Sinicwalls all have 1 foot in the grave. I've replaces 3 of those NSA2400's with clusters of Juniper SRX100's, that one is the last to go. I have a few peices of equipment that get deprecated when I roll out those SRX240's in that pic.

The procurve ZL chassis seem lince, although I'm more used to working with Cisco Catalyst chassis switches. These switches were specced with the premium liccenses as well, so they'll do a lot of routing functionality, and VRRP between the two.

I won't be using a lot of POE right off the bat (just my access points, MSM310's in autonomous mode and a few of the VOIP phones, mostly the polycomms in the boardroom etc), and they're only specced with two power supplies each right now, but at my old job I had the same chassis with 4x2000W powersupplies, lots available for POE, pretty cool units.

Also, can't really see them in the pic, but I've got a new SA700 behind the mess of cables (SSL VPN concentrator) and new WAN connection going in for physical redundancy (a secondd single mode fiber run, but the same ISP)
 
Nice to know. I'm thinking that there isn't going to be anything coming from HP considering it's been over a week since we just had our initial sit down meeting. This is going the same road as the last hp sales guy that stopped out.. Not good
 
calvinj said:
Nice to know. I'm thinking that there isn't going to be anything coming from HP considering it's been over a week since we just had our initial sit down meeting. This is going the same road as the last hp sales guy that stopped out.. Not good
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direct from HP or a reseller?
 
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Juniper MX960
Two Alcatel 7750 SR12s
Couple Netscreens

This was in process picture of turning it all up
 
The Juniper does something like 2.6 Tbps for the chassis and 120Gbps per card.

I forget what the current specs on the backplane on the alcatels are but its like 50Gbps per slot.
 
Berg0 said:
NSA2400.
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Thanks, i am looking to get a sonicwall, i will give them another try. I want to get one soi can learn it at home, once i have that mastered i can sell them. The one company i do subcontracting for, sells them and said i could make some great money with them selling them.

J'
 
dashpuppy said:
Thanks, i am looking to get a sonicwall, i will give them another try. I want to get one soi can learn it at home, once i have that mastered i can sell them. The one company i do subcontracting for, sells them and said i could make some great money with them selling them.

J'
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I have one in production right now as my main firewall. It's ok, but if you have questions PM me and we can chat about it
 
dashpuppy said:
Thanks, i am looking to get a sonicwall, i will give them another try. I want to get one soi can learn it at home, once i have that mastered i can sell them. The one company i do subcontracting for, sells them and said i could make some great money with them selling them.

J'
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I didn't really care for them much, that's why they are all being deprecated. Also, if you're using the GUI there is really nothing to learn.
 
Berg0 said:
I didn't really care for them much, that's why they are all being deprecated. Also, if you're using the GUI there is really nothing to learn.
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I'm looking to buy a sonicwall Firewall, to put into my house to learn and use, possibly learn lots about it so i can sell them to customers ( the wireless versions )

Currently i have a Astaro 220 unit i got off ebay, I love it but would like something new now :)

I have my Astaro Unit up for sale on Ebay. What don't you like about Sw ? pm ?

j'
 
dashpuppy said:
I'm looking to buy a sonicwall Firewall, to put into my house to learn and use, possibly learn lots about it so i can sell them to customers ( the wireless versions )

Currently i have a Astaro 220 unit i got off ebay, I love it but would like something new now :)

I have my Astaro Unit up for sale on Ebay. What don't you like about Sw ? pm ?

j'
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ok, I'll brace for the influx of ZOMG SONICWALL FTW posts, haha.

Don't really care for the CLI on the sonicwalls, I've also ran into a few odd issues between sonicwalls firepalls and other vendors firewalls while establishing site to site IPsec VPN tunnels.

I find the rpice and performance of the Juniper SRX sreries devices I purchased better, as well as having better experiences with Juniper customer support. First choice would still be Cisco ASA devices due to my familiarity with them, but all my Juniper gear was purchased during the period of time where Cisco was upping it's memory reuirements and having tons of trouble with stock levels.
 
Berg0 said:
ok, I'll brace for the influx of ZOMG SONICWALL FTW posts, haha.

Don't really care for the CLI on the sonicwalls, I've also ran into a few odd issues between sonicwalls firepalls and other vendors firewalls while establishing site to site IPsec VPN tunnels.

I find the rpice and performance of the Juniper SRX sreries devices I purchased better, as well as having better experiences with Juniper customer support. First choice would still be Cisco ASA devices due to my familiarity with them, but all my Juniper gear was purchased during the period of time where Cisco was upping it's memory reuirements and having tons of trouble with stock levels.
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I'm trying to find a unit that i will want to keep, use in my house, and that i can sell my customers later on. Astaro Pricing is out to lunch, way over priced and just crazy.

However their Home version rocks i love it, works great. Not sure it's catching viruses or spyware ive been watching the logs and stats but meh!

I thought about the sonicwall, because i can get a NFR unit with a 2 year subscription for decent price from work.

I was going to go back to untangle, but the limited vpn capabilities doesn't work for me, i'm always on the road with my laptop and need to have access to my home files along with being secure.

Having av & spyware at the gateway is perfect for my home :) the wife surfs alot and so do I.

J'
 
dashpuppy said:
I'm trying to find a unit that i will want to keep, use in my house, and that i can sell my customers later on. Astaro Pricing is out to lunch, way over priced and just crazy.

However their Home version rocks i love it, works great. Not sure it's catching viruses or spyware ive been watching the logs and stats but meh!

I thought about the sonicwall, because i can get a NFR unit with a 2 year subscription for decent price from work.

I was going to go back to untangle, but the limited vpn capabilities doesn't work for me, i'm always on the road with my laptop and need to have access to my home files along with being secure.

Having av & spyware at the gateway is perfect for my home :) the wife surfs alot and so do I.

J'
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If your really looking for something to play with and don't want t the cost of an nsa series, but a tz210w.

Wireless N speeds and built in 5 port switch plus wan.

I have one at a warehouse and like it. The other thing is the software is all the same from the tz series up to the nsa and nsa e series. Just depends on what features you enable with the licensing
 
calvinj said:
If your really looking for something to play with and don't want t the cost of an nsa series, but a tz210w.

Wireless N speeds and built in 5 port switch plus wan.

I have one at a warehouse and like it. The other thing is the software is all the same from the tz series up to the nsa and nsa e series. Just depends on what features you enable with the licensing
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hell no! I will not buy one of their wireless units, i had one LOL didn't like it at all. i already have access points in my house :)

j'
 
dashpuppy said:
hell no! I will not buy one of their wireless units, i had one LOL didn't like it at all. i already have access points in my house :)

j'
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it's a feature, you can disable it! I have a Cisco 871W on the edge at home, but I have the radios disabled and I use my 1131 for wireless.
 
dashpuppy said:
very true, i just dont need a wireless unit, only wired. maybe a 240 might get purchased :)
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One thing to watch out for is that only the NSA240 and above support VLANs. Lesser units only have "PortShield" support which lets you segregate ports, zones, etc. but you don't get access to the tag config, etc.

I'm still pissed at Sonicwall about that.. Sonicwall is a very shady company, one of those where you need to ask *very* specific questions about what you're trying to do because they often neglect to mention "key" pieces of information unless asked directly.

Even now, if you go look on their model comparison page it says the TZ series supports VLANs even though it doesn't. I think Sonicwall is taking the "literal" definition of VLAN in that it's a "virtual LAN".. Well, yes it is, but that's not the standard, it's confusing, and misleading.

Riley
 
Skud said:
One thing to watch out for is that only the NSA240 and above support VLANs. Lesser units only have "PortShield" support which lets you segregate ports, zones, etc. but you don't get access to the tag config, etc.

I'm still pissed at Sonicwall about that.. Sonicwall is a very shady company, one of those where you need to ask *very* specific questions about what you're trying to do because they often neglect to mention "key" pieces of information unless asked directly.

Even now, if you go look on their model comparison page it says the TZ series supports VLANs even though it doesn't. I think Sonicwall is taking the "literal" definition of VLAN in that it's a "virtual LAN".. Well, yes it is, but that's not the standard, it's confusing, and misleading.

Riley
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What would you suggest to your clients / customers if you were to put in a firewall with av/spyware and vpn support.
 
dashpuppy said:
What would you suggest to your clients / customers if you were to put in a firewall with av/spyware and vpn support.
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I have a lot of Sonicwall units out there. It really depends on what the client needs. If it's a small branch office and you don't expect to ever have to have to deal with VLAN *tags* then I usually push the Sonicwall TZ100 or TZ210 TotalSecure units. They include Premium Content filtering, Gateway AV, IPS, and rudimentary anti-spam all in one unit for a decent price.

If you need full "industry standard" VLAN support then it's minimum NSA240.

I've also dealt with the TippingPoint units and they're really nice. We deploy them in scenarios where PIM-DM multicast over VPN tunnels is necessary (certain VoIP solutions like the 3Com NBX require this)

I really do like the Sonicwall units themselves. Easy to use and configure and seem to work well, but the company and their tactics are shady.

Riley
 
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