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    • AhnHELA
      AhnHEL
      last edited by

      ^  :o Best Home Setup thus far, congrats Mike

      ;)

      AhnHEL (Angel)

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        mikeisfly
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        Thanks, I forgot to add I have Cisco Call Manager 4.3 and 8 running in a VM controlling the phones. I'm thinking about adding a asterisk box for the Voice mail capabilities and seeing if I can integrate that with call manager since I don't have Unity. Anyone who has done this already please pm me.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          I agree it's an impressive rack!  ;)
          Dare I ask how much power that draws? Do you run all of that 24/7?

          Steve

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            mikeisfly
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            When I built the room I added 20 Amp services dedicated to just the room. Not sure how much current it draws but by electric bill is about $250 in the winter and close to $400 in summer with air conditioner running. I run everything but the PBX all the time. By the way for wireless I use the EnGenius EAP600 High-Powered Dual-Band Indoor Wireless-N AP.

            I think its worth it though. I'm not much of a partier and I don't through my money away on strippers I just like to play around with things and make them work. Hopefully I will find my dream job where my boss will buy me what ever I want and I can play with things at work. I have a pretty fancy lab at work too, where I have a IPsec tunnel. One of these days I will get around to document that for you guys too. I do think it's telling that I have a Cisco 2821 series router but I would rather use Pfsense for my router / firewall than use Cisco. Don't get me wrong I'm a big Cisco fan but I am really liking what you guys at Pfsense are doing and I am telling all my Cisco Fan boy friends about you guys. Keep it up!

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              Krakke
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              Built three new boxes for wall mounting

              Intel D2500CC
              Intel Atom Dual Core 1.86 GHz
              4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz
              40GB Intel 320 SSD

              My box at home
              Telia 100/100 Mbit
              Netgear GS108Tv2
              Cisco WAP121 for wifi

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                mikeisfly
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                Nice looking case. What is Inteno? I searched it on bing.com and only found reference to a open source platform, and something about a broadband service in Sweden.

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                • AhnHELA
                  AhnHEL
                  last edited by

                  Looks like a Switch with the optional Fiber tray.

                  http://www.inteno.se/Store/tabid/141/categoryid/130/productid/442/Default.aspx

                  AhnHEL (Angel)

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                    matguy
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                    @mikeisfly:

                    Nice looking case. What is Inteno? I searched it on bing.com and only found reference to a open source platform, and something about a broadband service in Sweden.

                    Looks like a specialized box for a particular IPTV solution.

                    http://www.inteno.se/store/tabid/141/categoryid/130/productid/444/default.aspx
                    http://www.mariehem.net/nyheter/2012/03/inteno-boxen-och-inkoppling-av-ip-tv (translation may be required)

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                      mattias197711
                      last edited by

                      they are used as a switch here in sweden when you have fiber.

                      for Internet, TV, and extra box for ip phone

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                        slu
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                        i5 @ 2.67GHz

                        • Captive Portal

                        • Vlan

                        • three PPPoE

                        • OpenVPN Server

                        • …

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                        pfSense Gold subscription

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                          Wanted to join the fun - don't have pic of hardware handy, but mine is just a VM anyway running on

                          HP N40L
                          AMD Turion II Neo N40L 1.5GHz 2-Core
                          8GB Ram
                          Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter
                          2nd Nic - INTEL EXPI9301CT
                          HDD 250GB, 2TB, 2x 750GB

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                          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                          SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

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                            mattias197711
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                            will send a pics if i can get my Alpha 500 something to work with pfSense.

                            heres a cool pic of the über gfx card

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Zorac
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                                on the far right, p4, pico power supply, no video (onboard or otherwise).  with no video, it surprisingly efficient.  I had another p4 with onboard video, and it used twice the power, no matter if you were using the video or not.

                                the far left is a high efficiency 12v power supply.  powers the router, switch, wireless, and some other stuff.

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                                • fabio.viganoF
                                  fabio.vigano
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                                  Hi!
                                  here is my solution:

                                  2 x Appliance pfSense 2.0.3

                                  Hardware
                                  Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2,8 GHz 65 watt
                                  RAM: 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
                                  HDD: 2.5" SATA 160 GB
                                  Ethernet: 8 x 10/100/1000

                                  Configuration
                                  4 x WAN
                                  1 X LAN
                                  1 x SYNC

                                  Cluster CARP + Multi Wan
                                  10 x VLAN
                                  DHCP
                                  DNS
                                  Snort IDS
                                  Content filter Squid + Squidguard
                                  Captive Portal + Vouchers
                                  HAVP Antivirus

                                  Fabio

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                                  La risorsa italiana per pfSense

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                                    hiddensoul
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                                    Okay I have been upgrading my home network, just ordered AUD180 worth of Cat6 cables to replace the ageing cat 5 stuff as I have just upgraded the switch to gigabit and I also am getting a 1RU cable management tray for the gap between the switch and rack mount box running pfsense

                                    I have also just replaced my Smoothwall OS with pfSense and haven't looked back.

                                    Here are a few photos of what i have so far, some of the stuff like the gaming console's are currently wireless but they will be hard wired in the next few weeks when the cables arrive.

                                    This is the  Main desk in the house, it is for my wife's work station which is on the left running dual head monitors and my Sons gaming PC is at the right, near the printer and in the far left corner is the cabinet I built from an old fire control panel to house the network gear and server, a few close ups of the cabinet to follow, the desk is a bit rough as I built it myself and I am not a carpenter lol

                                    The Network cabinet built in to the end of the desk, the server, pfsense box and switch are inside and I am going to mount an android 7" tablet and Bluetooth keyboard in the right of the cabinet for SSH and web admin.. on top of the cabinet from left to right is the wireless AP, VOIP ATA and the ADSL modem with Nokia 9500 that I use as a SSH terminal via WiFi. In the yellow box in the cabinet is some spare rack hardware and network cable tester.

                                    Close up of appliances on top of cabinet

                                    Cabinet opened up, the inside is a bit rough looking as I had to cut it up with a grinder to make it a rack mount cabinet, I will be painting the inside of the cabinet flat black and will be putting a light smoke tint on the glass as it is glass and not perspex, it wont scratch so will buy some car tint and put it on the inside of the glass

                                    Close up of the inside of the cabinet, freeNAS file server on left then the pfsense box in the 1RU computer, cable management tray will go in when I get the new cables between the firewall and switch which is a 3com 2924 gigabit managed switch

                                    And finally a photo of my HAM radio shack, or at least the computer work station section, the radios are around the other side, my HAM shack is an 8 foot by 8 foot tin garden shed :)

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                                    • AhnHELA
                                      AhnHEL
                                      last edited by

                                      ^
                                      Loving the hostname tags on your hardware.

                                      ;)

                                      and…

                                      "In Case of Emergency LAN Party, Break Glass."

                                      AhnHEL (Angel)

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                                      • pttP
                                        ptt Rebel Alliance
                                        last edited by

                                        I just hope that his "Titanic" don't sink…..   :P    :D

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                                          hiddensoul
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                                          The Titanic file server is actually SS Titanic named after the Srat Ship Titanic from Douglas Adams not RMS Titanic, and it is meant to sink….
                                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic
                                          As in a file sink or a place to dump all the crap my family wants to keep and it did crash once, I bought a brand new 3TB drive a few months ago to put in it to up the storage and had it in a USB external housing to transfer files to it and knocked it off the desk :(  it didnt work after that, it lasted all of 4 hours and I am still saving money to buy a replacement oh well BS happens

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                                            hiddensoul
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                                            @AhnHEL:

                                            ^
                                            Loving the hostname tags on your hardware.

                                            ;)

                                            and…

                                            "In Case of Emergency LAN Party, Break Glass."

                                            See my other post for a list of hostnames on my network http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,63179.0.html

                                            Some have meaning some are random..

                                            VOIP ATA is Money Penny the receptionist from James bond because it handles the phone calls
                                            Octopussy also a Bond reference is the network switch, that is self evident
                                            Phaser for the Laser printer Start Trek. The full name is Phaser's set to stun
                                            My Ham Shack 8 port switch has blue LEDs so is called Bluering as in Blue ring octopus
                                            Apollo for the Wireless AP as Apollo is the god of the sun and light ie wireless as light is the original WiFi using mirrors
                                            One Son uses random names for his devices
                                            My other son has all Stargate names
                                            My Wife has Egyptian names
                                            And I use Futurama Names

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