What Are You Doing Right Now
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Working on an older whitebox server that was here before I got here. It was randomly rebooting so it has been sitting in our rack doing nothing for the last couple of years... not a bad little box, two 128GB SSDs in RAID 1 and two 2TB HDDs in RAID 1. Plus 16 cores and 32 GB of RAM.
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@scottalanmiller
Mostly training and researching. the planned firewall is a bust due to hardware issues. pfSense wont run on it it would seem. I know I can fall back to a Ubiqiti Router,.. but I was hoping to use pfSense. -
@coliver potent little box
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
Mostly training and researching. the planned firewall is a bust due to hardware issues. pfSense wont run on it it would seem. I know I can fall back to a Ubiqiti Router,.. but I was hoping to use pfSense.The Nics I assume? Pfsense/FreeBSD likes Intel Nics the best.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver potent little box
Yep, reinitializing the RAID arrays right now. The SSDs were done in probably 20 seconds... the big drives are going to take a bit longer. I'm not sure why it was crashing yet, I narrowed it down the the RAID controller as it was performing wonderfully when I just had the SSDs hooked up. Right now going on 4 hours of no reboots with the RAID card installed in a different slot before it would reboot every 7-15 minutes.
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@thecreativeone91
I used a d-link one from Amazon.
I think it's the PC itself. it's ooooold. Optiplex 330..
It's sitting on a screen after boot:
F1-pfsense
f5-drive 1f6-
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@g.jacobse said:
@thecreativeone91
I used a d-link one from Amazon.
I think it's the PC itself. it's ooooold. Optiplex 330..
It's sitting on a screen after boot:
F1-pfsense
f5-drive 1f6-
hmm I've ran it on a 330 I think. a Dell Opitplex 745 is my UTM right now. Make sure you used the 32bit version on the optiplex 330
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@coliver said:
Yep, reinitializing the RAID arrays right now. The SSDs were done in probably 20 seconds... the big drives are going to take a bit longer. I'm not sure why it was crashing yet, I narrowed it down the the RAID controller as it was performing wonderfully when I just had the SSDs hooked up. Right now going on 4 hours of no reboots with the RAID card installed in a different slot before it would reboot every 7-15 minutes.
Yikes, PSU tested good?
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
Yep, reinitializing the RAID arrays right now. The SSDs were done in probably 20 seconds... the big drives are going to take a bit longer. I'm not sure why it was crashing yet, I narrowed it down the the RAID controller as it was performing wonderfully when I just had the SSDs hooked up. Right now going on 4 hours of no reboots with the RAID card installed in a different slot before it would reboot every 7-15 minutes.
Yikes, PSU tested good?
Wish I had a way to test it at the moment. Nothing on hand. Recommend any good testers?
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Epic facepalm.... http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/882798-raid-5-as-a-boot-drive
Why is that under moderation? Were there a ton of posts that were removed? Also facepalm indeed.
No idea. I posted asking that but, of course, was moderated so it didn't go up to find out.
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
Mostly training and researching. the planned firewall is a bust due to hardware issues. pfSense wont run on it it would seem. I know I can fall back to a Ubiqiti Router,.. but I was hoping to use pfSense.Why not use the Ubiquiti? It's more powerful than the pfSense. I'd prefer it given the choice.
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@mlnews said:
@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
Mostly training and researching. the planned firewall is a bust due to hardware issues. pfSense wont run on it it would seem. I know I can fall back to a Ubiqiti Router,.. but I was hoping to use pfSense.Why not use the Ubiquiti? It's more powerful than the pfSense. I'd prefer it given the choice.
It's interesting and good but, not more powerful. Pfsense has a lot more options and the ability to scale much larger than the EdgeRouters.
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I am sure that I could go either way and be 'spot on' there are some things that I feel that I should do that the EdgeMax may not be able to do.
One thing is QoS for the phone, and then split the network, one side for the office, the other for the kids. I want to ensure that I don't get throttled due to their watching videos or Netflix.
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@g.jacobse The EdgeRouters should be able to do all that if you use the cli
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Been to the doctor and back, to much water here! Took forever getting to work. Got here at noon, that's a good time to start work, right?
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@BMarie
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@thecreativeone91 said:
It's interesting and good but, not more powerful. Pfsense has a lot more options and the ability to scale much larger than the EdgeRouters.
In theory sure, it can scale huge if you are putting in on serious hardware. But who needs to scale past a GigE connection at home? It's like getting a Ferrari to drive around town - it's no faster than my Opal Corsa when the speed limit is 40kph.
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@g.jacobse said:
One thing is QoS for the phone, and then split the network, one side for the office, the other for the kids. I want to ensure that I don't get throttled due to their watching videos or Netflix.
These aren't just things it CAN do, they are features that they specialize in and specifically tout as strong points!
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Setting up Fail2Ban on my linux box.
