One thing I did notice is that when I powered on the router for the first time, it was noticeably hot, almost too hot to touch! Interestingly the system runs quite acceptable now. Perhaps it was initial burn in. If I would do it over, I would get 2 2.5” sata drives per board and mirror them, so in case of catastrophic failure, I would likely be able to recover the logs.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Worden Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 6:31 PM To: vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com Subject: [Vyatta-users] FW: VRRP rocks! I was getting a few direct requests, so here’s the detail… From: Todd Worden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 9:37 PM To: 'john jaikovski' Subject: RE: [Vyatta-users] VRRP rocks! Ok, here goes... SMC 8014 IP Gateway (Comcast’s cable modem/router) Linksys WRT54G (running DD-WRT on subnet 192.168.yyy.1) 1U redundant route/firewall (Vyatta OFR on subnet 192.168.xxx.1) - VIA EPIA EK 10000G Motherboard o 1.0GHz VIA Luke CoreFusion Embedded Processor o 2 SATA I connectors o Dual RJ45 10/100 (don’t mind no gigabit here since routing ISP traffic) o 6 channel Audio - 512MB - 80G WD800AAJS SATA II - Travla C14 1U Server Chassis o Dual front and rear serial ports o Dual front and rear 2 port USB o Dual front CF readers o Dual 220W power supplies Netgear GSM7224 24 port Gigabit switch Norco DS600 chassis - Asus M2NWS32 Server board - AMD X2 5200+ dual core - 4G Ram - 4 of 6 hot swap bays filled (500G SATA II WD5000AAKS) Norco DS600 chassis - Asus M2NWS32 Server board - AMD X2 5200+ dual core - 4G Ram - 4 of 6 hot swap bays filled (500G SATA II WD5000AAKS) - Fedora 7 Norco DS1220 12 bay NAS - 10 of 12 hot swap bays filled (500G SATA II WD5000AAKS) - 1-5 RAID 5, 6-10 RAID5, 11-12 Empty - Fedora 7 APC 2200XL UPS APC 24U VX Netshelter Server Cabinet Some of this stuff I got through Newegg, but the APC stuff and Netgear switch were awesome deals on ebay. There is currently about 4U worth of space left, which will hopefully get filled with another DS600 chassis, but for now, I’ve run out of $$$ :0). I think my next goal is to try and play around with ESX and maybe learn how to do some grid-like setup. Todd From: john jaikovski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:50 PM To: Todd Worden Subject: Re: [Vyatta-users] VRRP rocks! Todd sounds cool i would be interested in you posting the details. Todd Worden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just wanted to post my recent accomplishment. I’m running a home network, with intent to someday adapt to small business, whereby I want a single point of entry firewall/router. Looking around at different open source distros, I thought it would be a lot of fun building a router with failover. So I found a barebones system that I configured with dual m-ITX 1Ghz, dual 512MB Ram, dual 80G Sata drives, plus some other cool stuff like CF readers, and serial ports, all in one 1U case. Since Vyatta supports VRRP, I decided to give it a go, compared to Endian which a friend of mine uses, and some others. Though I haven’t worked with the others, I am really pleased with Vyatta OFR. In fact the easiest step was finally configuring VRRP. Took 10 secs, and it all just worked! No I can power down one or the other boards and I am still up online. How cool is that? Anyway, it’s nice to have a plan and to finally see it work out. If anyone is interested in building a similar system, I can post more details. Nice work! Todd _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users Thanks John Jaikovski __________ NOD32 2725 (20071216) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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