David,
If you are looking for some testimonials, I'd be willing to write
one up if you think it's appropriate.
The summary is: We took 9 56K, 3 384K, and 1 T1 Frame Relay
connections, which with access and leased line fees where costing
us in the ballpark of $10,000.00 a month. Using a fiber network so
generously provided to us by an incoming cable company, we used old
pentium PCs from our recyclable stock, some Ethernet to Fiber
Transceivers, and NetGear FA310TX NICs to connect all 12 Buildings.
Total project price was $22,000 including a contractor to go through and
move the IP Structure from Static to Dynamic and re-number all the
servers.
Year1 Savings: $100k
Year2+ Savings: $120k
It should be noted this is intended as a temporary solution, but it's been
running for 2 years now without any major complaints and minimal downtime.
I think soon, I'm going to take Dachstein out to the LRP boxes and drop it
in. Actually, I can probably do it over the network considering they all
have harddrives in them.
Anyways, let me know if you want me to write something up.
--Patrick
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, David Douthitt wrote:
> On 1/31/02 at 9:51 PM, Robert Sprockeels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > You're right, it *is* a rather complicated-looking config
> > (does this sound like an understatement?). The routing
> > table is not too complicated, but the ruleset now has 250+
> > rules in it (and counting). There still is no performance
> > problem. Of course, we used a P3 1GHz for it... :-) Oh,
> > and I forgot to mention a 2-cpu Sangoma WAN card with 3
> > out of 4 ports used for leased lines... relax, just 128k
> > ones ;-)
> >
> > The two systems are configured in a fail-over setup to
> > provide high availability, and are housed in 19" 4U
> > cabinets with an extremely nice feature: the bracket area
> > is on the front side...
> >
> > There is one external segment, one for DMZ, one for
> > internal servers, a couple for customers connecting
> > through their lines or needing direct access to their
> > database servers, the leased lines are SMS feeds from our
> > local mobile phone operators, there are a bunch of
> > internal segments and some VPN tunnels.
> >
> > Quite some population... But - that's why I like LEAF - it
> > WORKS!!! Just *TRY* to do the same with Cisco and a
> > limited budget...
>
> Could you expand on this and allow us to use it as a "Customer
> Testimonial" or something like that? It would be quite an example - a
> sort of Look at What You Can Do with LEAF!
>
> How about diagrams, and so on....
> --
> David Douthitt
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
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