Post your HOME networking setup!

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bigredshark said:
As said before, some of us do this for a living, being able to test out an idea quickly in the evening is priceless. Same for exams (particularly when you go beyond CCNP level). I have most of my kit at work in the lab and just a few bits and pieces at home but if I was contracting I'd likely have a lot more at home...
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Thats a fair point. All min is is wires and flashy lights. But in a nice (big) box.
 
I felt 'Geeky' looking for a cisco router for my home internet connection...

Would love to have that equipment, nearly finished my CCNA so would be a good play around before the Exam!


Linksys WAG354G + Wireless (2 Laptops, PDA, PSP/PS3, Wii)
> Netgear 8 port Gig Switch
> Server (NAS, Web etc), 2 PC's, Printer, Media Centre.
 
wrt54g with tomato-5port gigabit switch-my 2 machines, one media centre, one gaming pc
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wireless to gf's laptop


home networking :p

nice though guys, but i couldn't justify the power used up by all those extras
 
Seeing all these pics of old kit used at at home reminded me of the time i used to bring home 3524's and 2500's to set up and study for the CCNA.
So long ago.

Unless you can get hold of 1GB managed switches and good routers which can take adsl2 or cable wics it really isn't worth the bother.
2811's and 1841's are not old junk that can slipaway without anyone noticing, and the hwics are very expensive.

I used to use 800's for my DSL connections at home but since they are both now adsl2 the 800's are a bit useless.

Did have a 2948 running at home a few years back.
At the time 1 GB etherenet nics were rare so i used the two GBIC's connected to my file servers.
Liberated a couple of Intel IGb fibre nics for them.

Still bring kit kit home if i need to set something new up.
Can work on configs over the weekend.
There are limits though you cant set 6513's up in the living room :)
Most kit is so noisy though you wouldn't want to run it at home 24/7
 
My networking setup lacks any complexity :)

Phone --> ADSL2 router --> 5 port Gigabit switch --> Laptop (on order)
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PC (in sig)


All less than 5m apart lol

EDIT: that PC is ment to be comming from the switch
 
My cisco kit, 837 as an adsl router for a /29 from Zen with a new asa5505 as the firewall between the lan & the internet.

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And of course the visio diagram :)
Not all machines are physical, in fact all the dmz servers are virtualized running on vmware server on antec, a quad core with 8gb ram.

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Doh! I've masked the external ip's but the names are resolvable. Oh well, can't be bothered to re-do it. :p
 
PCZ said:
Seeing all these pics of old kit used at at home reminded me of the time i used to bring home 3524's and 2500's to set up and study for the CCNA.
So long ago.

Unless you can get hold of 1GB managed switches and good routers which can take adsl2 or cable wics it really isn't worth the bother.
2811's and 1841's are not old junk that can slipaway without anyone noticing, and the hwics are very expensive.

I used to use 800's for my DSL connections at home but since they are both now adsl2 the 800's are a bit useless.

Did have a 2948 running at home a few years back.
At the time 1 GB etherenet nics were rare so i used the two GBIC's connected to my file servers.
Liberated a couple of Intel IGb fibre nics for them.

Still bring kit kit home if i need to set something new up.
Can work on configs over the weekend.
There are limits though you cant set 6513's up in the living room :)
Most kit is so noisy though you wouldn't want to run it at home 24/7
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My kit is on indefinate loan from work (1841 and 2x Juniper SSG5), I had a pair of 3750E switches when I was testing some QOS stuff but they're just too loud to run at home (and gigabit layer3 switches with 10Gbit unlinks aren't something I need at home). Have to say I'd never shell out £2k of my own cash for it at home.

I've just reserved myself a rack in the lab with a terminal server and remote access these days for testing a config, my current projects are too big and the kit too expensive to consider taking home (4 6509s for a current project cost in excess of £300k)
 
and i thoght i was coming up in the world with my home server and remote desktop connection via the tinterweb. pft, you's have really shown me up now lol


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Modem - Bog Standard VM 2MB
Router - Lisnksys WRK5G v1

Server

e2140
2GB RAM
2x500GB

IcyBox - 20GB portable storage
 
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May i just ask what all these things do/are used for??

All as i have is my wireless router connecting to 3 pc's lol
 
Ok People.

I'm looking for a small rack for my 2950, any ideas where I can get one from? I see that some of you have small racks, all my stuff is on the floor at the moment, but looking for a rack :)

Stelly
 
BT Home Hub -> Wired PC / Wired PC (brothers) / Wireless PC (dads) / Other wireless goodies inc ps3, 360, iphone & psp.

Maybe when I've finished uni and get a full time job I'll install a file server too.

Basic, but I don't pay the electric bills till I move out ;)
 
Iceman said:
May i just ask what all these things do/are used for??

All as i have is my wireless router connecting to 3 pc's lol
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Well one thing I do use my kit for (aside from testing stuff for work) is a decent firewall. The firewalls inside cheap routers (if they have them) are rubbish and I don't like running software firewalls on my machines. I don't use NAT so I want a decent firewall, hence I have a Juniper SSG5 which is the same firewall engine used by many enterprises (it's the market leader at least), just scaled down a little. I also run a little IDP on my router, though mainly because I can.
 
Mine goes like this:
Virgin
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Linksys MIMO router-1TB NAS
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Domain/File Server that doesnt get used anymore

----then wireless to 3 PCs and 2 laptops

Wish I had money for some fancy stuff like you guys!:(
....wounder how much I could sell a kidney for
 
I'd love to play with some of this kinda ear at home, we've changed to Orange internet though (the worst thing ever) and you need to have your Orange box plugged in for the free phone calls it gives you.

It dials out so when you ring someone you're number shows up as some weird thing, they ring you back on a different number.

What a stupid idea all that was...
 
Mines dead simple.

Network cards/dongles in the desktop and two laptops all linked to a hacked bt router (2wire) which means the laptops still connect in the pub up the road :eek:
 
Heck some of you have got better gear at home than some businesses I've seen!

Applying the K.I.S.S. method here;

Belkin modem/router with 54G (built in firewall),
100MB/s ethernet to pc1(dads) and pc2(sig rig),
54G connection for sisters laptops (can't turn one of them off for fear of it never running again!)
All four machines also run their own firewalls.
 
Just read this thread :eek:

I have never seen so much old cream compaq and cisco kit in one place for years !!!! We decomissioned a old data centre not long ago and it had loads of cream compaq stuff which weighed a ton.

All I have is a normal ADSL router, network printers and 3 PC's (Gaming PC, old ftp file store PC, windows home server on old PC with big disk) plus a web enabled cctv network device and its camera's etc. Not being an ISP or content hoster I don't need anything else.

:D
 
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