I agree, it is not good to see this kind of thing. I miss having my cheapo Dell poweredge server running esxi.
. Had to sell it to move to Canada and now can't find anything as cheap.Your home server & Network
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I agree, it is not good to see this kind of thing. I miss having my cheapo Dell poweredge server running esxi.
. Had to sell it to move to Canada and now can't find anything as cheap.
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Maybe of interest to some - you can currently grab a HP proliant microserver for £200 or so, HP are offering £100 cashback on top of that until the end of december. So £100 for a dual core Athlon 1.3, 1GB RAM and 4 drive bays, it's about the best value disk free NAS I've seen for a long time...
I saw that deal but didnt know if you could install an os on ?
It comes either without an OS, with Windows server or RedHat 5.5 from the review I've read so I guess you can install your own if you wish.
No raid5 or raid10, two internal pci-e slots (half height, half length 16x and 1x), internal USB connection as well as the ones on the outside. Looks quite nice. The raid is report to be CPU based rather than a dedicated motherboard chipset. Would like to see actual network transfer rates though as this seems to be what has crippled a number of NAS and media players.
Not really anything to touch it at that price though.
Might even be worth updating my DNS-323 for one of these.
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Finally got my ASA (£120 from eBay, absolute bargain!), moved it upstairs for my "VoIP Lab" so I can use the PoE ports, got 2 7906G IP phones coming, VIC-2FXO and VIC-2FXS cards to go in that NM-2V on the 2611XM router.
Hoping to get OpenSIP up and running shortly.
The 877W router is downstairs on the ATM trunking to the ASA, with aironet in the garage (for no apparent reason other than skills and to listen to LastFM when I'm in the "gym")
Monitor usually has Zenoss on it and Scruitinize
Hoping to get OpenSIP up and running shortly.
The 877W router is downstairs on the ATM trunking to the ASA, with aironet in the garage (for no apparent reason other than skills and to listen to LastFM when I'm in the "gym")
Monitor usually has Zenoss on it and Scruitinize
Interesting setup there. VOIP still remains a bit of a mystery to me. :lol
What does the VOIP system connect to for external comms? Do you use broadband and a voip provider or a standard pstn line?
Would you be able to do a small diagram of how it all connects and what each component is?
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What does the VOIP system connect to for external comms? Do you use broadband and a voip provider or a standard pstn line?
Would you be able to do a small diagram of how it all connects and what each component is?
Andrew
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Finally got my ASA (£120 from eBay, absolute bargain!), moved it upstairs for my "VoIP Lab" so I can use the PoE ports, got 2 7906G IP phones coming, VIC-2FXO and VIC-2FXS cards to go in that NM-2V on the 2611XM router.
Hoping to get OpenSIP up and running shortly.
The 877W router is downstairs on the ATM trunking to the ASA, with aironet in the garage (for no apparent reason other than skills and to listen to LastFM when I'm in the "gym")
Monitor usually has Zenoss on it and Scruitinize
Very nice
And who the **** sold that ASA for £120
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I got lucky with the ASA, it had no power brick but I knew I could get one from work - so for some reason it went for much lower than average, anyway I was out bid but the guy who won changed his mind and they offered it to me at £120 - absolute steal at that price. Its running the base license, hoping to get this upgraded later to the sec plus but its not a big deal atm.
IP phone arrived today, pretty good deal for £20!
hoping to get the Opensource PBX online this weekend
I need to learn more about this stuff for my job and sometimes its more fun and easier to do it at home in a lab, the idea is to link up my house with friends and parents and make IP calls for free using no providers other than our own SIP trunks and a PBX at each site (I thnk - still figuring it out), I came across a cool idea for the device that will run the PBX - it should arrive tomorrow, I'll throw up pics then.
Hardest part will be NAT and SIP I think.
My friends will have PBX and Cisco ATA whereas I have FXS / FXO and IP phones so I won't need this.
Should be good fun!
IP phone arrived today, pretty good deal for £20!
hoping to get the Opensource PBX online this weekend
I need to learn more about this stuff for my job and sometimes its more fun and easier to do it at home in a lab, the idea is to link up my house with friends and parents and make IP calls for free using no providers other than our own SIP trunks and a PBX at each site (I thnk - still figuring it out), I came across a cool idea for the device that will run the PBX - it should arrive tomorrow, I'll throw up pics then.
Hardest part will be NAT and SIP I think.
My friends will have PBX and Cisco ATA whereas I have FXS / FXO and IP phones so I won't need this.
Should be good fun!
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I use Asterisk and FreePBX (with two sipgate trunks) alongside reflashed Cisco 7940s - works perfectly for my needs. I've got a spare 7940 (without power brick) if you're looking for another one
I've fallen out of touch with the networking world tbh, I keep meaning to redesign my own but always get distracted. My main server (that handles DHCP/DNS/Cyrus/Exim/SVN/OpenVPN/MySQL...) is seriously ill; I know one day it'll just die and I'll regret not porting everything over to separate VM instances on the new server I bought specifically for doing that
The only services I've got any redundancy with is DHCP/DNS which are automatically taken over by a secondary server if they go down - the rest would be lost.
(I do carry out backups of all the config files to an NFS share on the secondary server and to DDS4 - but it'd take me a fair few days to get everything back to normal)
I've fallen out of touch with the networking world tbh, I keep meaning to redesign my own but always get distracted. My main server (that handles DHCP/DNS/Cyrus/Exim/SVN/OpenVPN/MySQL...) is seriously ill; I know one day it'll just die and I'll regret not porting everything over to separate VM instances on the new server I bought specifically for doing that
The only services I've got any redundancy with is DHCP/DNS which are automatically taken over by a secondary server if they go down - the rest would be lost. (I do carry out backups of all the config files to an NFS share on the secondary server and to DDS4 - but it'd take me a fair few days to get everything back to normal
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I know what you mean about falling out of touch, I do this for my job so sometimes I just can't be bothered, I'd rather drink beer, watch footie or hit some gaming time, but this little project is really useful for helping me out at work - especially SIP and Cisco.
Anyway, after getting my ASA into the mix (this was tough, I have to admit I used to ASDM, but the plan was to get it working with ASDM and then save the config, trash it and do it on the command line!), I've just started configuring my PBX on this:
I am well impressed with this device, so many possibilities! going to get some more when I get paid, check out the eSATA port! I wish OcUK would stock these, they would make a fortune!
Definately interested in your 7940 mate, but can you hold off until I get paid? how much you wanting for it?
Anyway, after getting my ASA into the mix (this was tough, I have to admit I used to ASDM, but the plan was to get it working with ASDM and then save the config, trash it and do it on the command line!
), I've just started configuring my PBX on this:
I am well impressed with this device, so many possibilities! going to get some more when I get paid, check out the eSATA port! I wish OcUK would stock these, they would make a fortune!
Definately interested in your 7940 mate, but can you hold off until I get paid? how much you wanting for it?