My Basement Datacenter.......... Kinda :p

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xphil3

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Ok, well its not a datacenter.... at all really.... hahaha

To give some background, I just graduated from school in RI and I moved back with my family in NJ. Im *temporarly* staying with my parents, working from home(SCORE!) doing network engineering and Tier III support for a wifi company.

Im living in the basement right now, and had to make some necessary changes :p

I want to start with some older pics of how the network used to look when I was in school in RI. ON TO THE PICS :) :)

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Pretty much the only pic I had, though the rack was completly full when I left. as you can probably tell the servers were stacked, which is the worst possible way to rack anything IMHO becuase if anything shits the bed, you have the derack so much stuff just to get to the server.

well i didn't want to put everything on shelfts, so I got myself some
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^YAY!

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Even though two of those boxes don't have machines in them, I have all the hardware sitting around. I just have to be "not lazy". :eek:
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some wiring that goes to the outside(office) room and parents office. This is temporary and will be put into cable sleveing.
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Very Temporary patch cabling. I still have another 6 or so things to put into the relay rack before ill be finished.

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Heres my office workstation before the paint im putting on the walls.
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And the final picture, my workstation. Paint is over exposed, oh well.

Well, ill be posting kinda like a progress pictures until im finished. Let me know what you guys think.
 
That's one hell of a "home" system!! What all are you doing with your equipment? Did you build that rack cabinet yourself?
 
jmroberts70 said:
That's one hell of a "home" system!! What all are you doing with your equipment? Did you build that rack cabinet yourself?
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Thanks. Im pretty much using most of the servers to either simulate, or stage servers that I implement at our centeral office. I also use them just to play around with.

I pretty much have

2 X 2K3 server DC's
1 X Snort/Nagios staging/testing machine
1 X 1.6TB fileserver, p0rn ;)
1 X FreeBSD running qmail/vpopmail(corporate stuff)
1 X Asterisk box(future build) for fun
1 X Webserver
1 X SPARC20, legacy apps that i love
1 X Fedora Core box for SSH tunneling/DNS/Samba

I like to learn as much as possible I guess. In the next few month you will see pictures of the relay rack filled with very expensive cisco equipment since Im starting to study with my brother for the CCIE.

nicolas9510,

Actually, I have nothing plugged into the 3 Cisco routers in that picture, or the 5000 :p . Im not sure if I put in the original post, this was a very quick and dirty install. I wanted to get everything somewhat situated. I only moved back in last week. I have 3 more cisco things to install into the rack, but hopefully by next week I will have my somewhat play lab put together.

And yes, I did build that cabinet myself(4 years ago). Im started to refinish it and fix a couple of things and now it looks like that. I have to finish it, i know.
 
I'm just more stunned that you have all this in your parent's basement...

Trying to image that and all I can hear is:
"I don't care what it does, get it out of here."
 
i knew i wasn't seeing things.
if you did decide to actualy plug the cisco routers into something why would you need 3 of them? (im not to familiar on how the cisco routers work)
 
nicolas9510 said:
i knew i wasn't seeing things.
if you did decide to actualy plug the cisco routers into something why would you need 3 of them? (im not to familiar on how the cisco routers work)
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routing protocols, just keeping a fresh mind to IOS(though I have simulators for that as well), and the 3rd 2500 is actually a 2509. Even though the 2500 series models are dead I wouldn't trade a standalone 2509 for a module access server, had far too many problems with them.

All in all though, I got some more paint done. Wrapped the cables that are coming into the patch panel a bit, got my fileserver back online along with my tivo and xbox(smb sharing with fileserver).

Any more comments, praises, insults. :D
 
So this is all just for your own personal testing and learing? What kind of WAN connection do you have? Also, did you buy all that equipment?
 
AMD[H]unter said:
So this is all just for your own personal testing and learing? What kind of WAN connection do you have? Also, did you buy all that equipment?
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yeah, this is *mostly* all personal stuff. I do stage stuff for work since I manage the internal network but yes, its mostly all for learning. Im also a huge security nerd, so the more machines the better testing/attacking enviornment I have.

I have Comcast 9mb with that speedboost stuff. I can sustain a 1.2MB/sec dll from news groups but a speakeasy test yields 20Mbit. Too bad my upload is crap :p

actually, I bought around 90% of this equipment over the years. I have a ton of stuff not pictured that I still need to setup that were bascially stuff that was given to me. All the cisco stuff I bought though, and most of the computers.
 
Off topic, but where in RI did you go to school? I live in Rhode Island so just curious :p

Anywho, like others have said, I can't believe your parents are letting you do this. :eek:
 
UberGeek427 said:
Off topic, but where in RI did you go to school? I live in Rhode Island so just curious

Anywho, like others have said, I can't believe your parents are letting you do this. :eek:
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I liked in Warwick. Went to school at NEIT.

Why is it so hard to understand why my parents are letting me do this, computers don't suck up that much electricity :( . My friend and I tested 12 computers and all my networking geat running for a solid month in RI and the electric bill went up 120 bucks(and this was in the summer with the AC). Ill let everyone know how much electric is up here when I do see the first electric bill. But anyway, my parents know I use it for education and probably expect me to buy them a lexus or something down the road sometime :p

btw ubergeek: I see that you work in best buy. Is this the one in west warwick? If so do you remember the 5 or so kids that came in with flyers for free RAM around a year or so ago and your *bitch* manager tryed to kick them out and they still got the RAM by calling corporate.... lol.... good times, good times. ;)
 
btw ubergeek: I see that you work in best buy. Is this the one in west warwick? If so do you remember the 5 or so kids that came in with flyers for free RAM around a year or so ago and your *bitch* manager tryed to kick them out and they still got the RAM by calling corporate.... lol.... good times, good times. ;)
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Actually I work @ the one in North Attleboro, MA. It's closer then Warwick for me! I live up in Burrillville, which is on the MA/CT line. So Worcester or North Attleboro are the same distance for me.

Yeah, I remember one of the guys from that store telling me that. :p
 
well guys, did some wiring tonight for the networking equipment rack. Im kinda pissed that I didn't get around to wiring all of my servers but whatever. Here are some recent pics of the racks.

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The first pic is actually power for the server rack. Hopefully ill have the cat5 done by tomorrow.

The CRT replaced the LCD that started emitting smoke not 10 mintues after I plugged her in. Looks like its time to get a new screen for the rack :)
 
What's that on the screen? Looks like either a telnet session to one of your switches\whatever or a linux\bsd console - not completely sure though :\
 
genesis[OFT] said:
What's that on the screen? Looks like either a telnet session to one of your switches\whatever or a linux\bsd console - not completely sure though :\
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m0n0wall console.
 
i just bought a used hard drive. when i up it in my new system it booted perfectly :eek:
only to find that it was filled with down loaded programs and massive amonts of PORN :rolleyes:
 
One track minds... all of you...

I don't even have THAT much porn... 6 gigs perhaps...:p

I should post up some new pictures, the racks have since changed and new equipment has been added.. meh.. laziness ftw!
 
Ah yes, I remember when I only had 6 gigs of porn...

Love to see new pics. Get 'em up here soon!!
 
lol, i just never got into the whole "collecting porn" thing.

Im more about archiving movies, data CDs, and music.... of which my 1.5TB is almost full.

if you wanna talk about porn though, my buddy has around 200gigs of quality(all DVD quality, no porn star below a 9 hot rating). Im more of the "takes a free tour with no intention of ever joining" type...:p
 
xphil3 said:
if you wanna talk about porn though, my buddy has around 200gigs of quality(all DVD quality, no porn star below a 9 hot rating). Im more of the "takes a free tour with no intention of ever joining" type...:p
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I want an FTP server up in one hour and a PM with a username and password. ;)
 
holy crap.... an update...

well not a big one, but oh well...

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Did this a few days after I started this thread, just never posted the pics... i think its pretty good:p

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some new additions :D

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Is that a supervisor 3 engine? I think so..... Layer 3 and Netflow yay!
Also added was some 4000 routers w/ multi-serial interface cards for frame switching
as well as 4 port IDSN interfaces on each to practice ODR/DDR when i get my IDSN sim.

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Everyone loves LED pics

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and my webserver, running my photogallery....

All of these pics were taken with my d50 w/ 50mm prime:)
 
... damn does that setup remind me of Serial Experiments Lain. Even more so than BrainEater's oil rig.

How much did all that roughly set you back?
 
Bet your parents love the power bill now.

That is pretty cool though, this motivates me to gain some knowledge on networking.
 
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