They are light on the details. What speed drives? What kind of internal controller? Anything in this box redundant or is all my storage gone when a power supply fails? Things like that are important, and they don't seem to mention it when I looked. I also question buying something like this from someone that makes nothing else even close.
We use the Compaq TaskSmart 2400N NAS. Yes, it runs Win2K but it's rock solid and very good. It's built around a normal Compaq server so we already have spares. It can do up to 10TB in Cluster config. It uses all standard Compaq drives and parts which can be shared among other systems. Plus, you can manage it from Insight Manager. It also exports out to NFS for UNIX clients.
It seems anyone that needed 1/2 TB on a NAS would already have other servers and would be better served going with their vendor's answer, assuming they had a good one.
I'm sure this device wasn't designed yesterday and frankly Mozilla wasn't ready for production until recently. On the other hand Opera has been going strong for a long time and has a proven track record. Sure, Mozilla may have been just great on your box, but that doesn't mean it would have done well on a handheld.
I'm an RHCE and have been an MCSE for about 8 years...well before the current flood of paper MCSEs using nothing but Transcenders to pass.
I took the RHCE last year and I was the only one out of 8 not to have taken the classes for it. There were several people there taking it for their 2nd or 3rd time. Bottom line, yes, it's a good lab exam but I could write up a study guide for it and have someone pass it in 2 weeks. That's exactly what will happen when the certification becomes valuable in the marketplace. It's not Microsoft's fault that a lot of MCSEs are clueless. It's the people writing get rich quick study guides and "sample" exams.
Now my disclaimer... I've written several study guides. One for the Linux LPIC and several MCSE tests. I write for the material and knowing that material well will get you through the exam. It annoys me to no end to see study guides that write just for the exam. It hurts everyone.
Of course everyone would like an office. But really, why should developers get them? What about the other workers? That's where it gets tricky. Developers are important, but so is accounting and sales.
Exchange 2K is different. It's built around SMTP, POP, LDAP, and iCalendar. It's using standard protocols. Where are the UNIX clients to support them?
It's easy to complain about Outlook and Exchange except there has been no real competition until now from Ximian, and that is only in the client piece. Exchange is a good system, just because it's from MS doesn't make it bad even if this is Slashdot.
Anyone remember when Corel wanted to go after MS Office? They started selling their Office suite (with WordPerfect) for $999 per network server with no user limit. You could have 200 people use one copy and only pay $5/user! Much cheaper than MS Office.
Guess what. No one bought it. Even at that price. Do they think people will switch to Star Office for over $100/user?
People seem to think they have a right to surf the net and send anything they want from work. Well, that's not the way it is. The computers and Internet connections are owned by the company. They don't pay people to do that stuff.
Due to viruses and other problems I've blocked any attachment capable of carrying a virus. Yes, it's sometimes a hassle but that's the way it is now. Management has requested we monitor the type of sites people visit just to make sure there isn't a big problem. So far they haven't requested user lists or specific sites. They won't until XXX sites start getting out of hand.
Viruses, security holes, and loss of productivity have caused these limits to be placed. Want to surf for fun, do it at home.
Read the agreement. What Microsoft doesn't want you to do is to use VNC to create a terminal services like server where you install an app once and share it with your network.
No one cares if you remote control it for administrative purposes.
It's called Multilinking and is part of PPP. It's done all the time with ISDN links. Most people don't exceed the bandwidth of cable/dsl so no one cares. If you want more speed just pay. I can get cable modems here up to 4Mb/sec and I've seen DSL in other parts of the country up to 7Mb/sec. No need for multilink.
As for the Nexland router, they just load balance by connection. Track how much each connection is being used and when the next user needs something you send it over the leased used line. That would be the only way to handle it.
As for the IPs...if you have more than 253 hosts inside you need to look at another device.
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Check out the Nexland ISB Pro800Turbo Firewall/NAT box. It will load balance two broadband connections.
An average home user won't have multiple Internet connections. How many people have DSL and Cable at the same time? There are small NAT routers that do this on the cheap. If your company is paying a couple grand for Internet connections they will already have at least one router and probably more.
Good routing protocols handle congestion as well as downed links. EIGRP takes these in to account. We have two connections to the same Bellsouth POP and use Cisco's CEF for packet level load balancing and redundancy should one circuit fail. You can bundle many links using CEF, but they must all go to the same router. Multiple connections to different POPs would require BGP.
No. My skill set in that area doesn't let me bill at $200 per hour. If I had all the experience and a CCIE like the guys we hire then yes, I could bill that much. Even then, the consultants don't get $200/hour, the company they work for does.
The work we needed done wasn't real high end, but more than the previous employees could handle. Now we can handle it.
I took the CCNP exams last November after taking a two-week bootcamp course. I took over at my office and we were tired of paying $200/hour for consultants to do work we should be doing in house. The boot camp I took from Global Knowledge was excellent with very good instructors. The exams are tough but they ask real world questions.
If you want to study at home I suggest the Cisco Preparation Series books as well as a lot of equipment. Without being comfortable on the equipment it's hard to get used to all the commands and which one is appropriate in certain places.
I learned a lot in the class and getting the cert...things I use every day now and it has really cut down on our consulting expenses and makes me a lot more valuable.
The CCNA exam is a joke. Every desktop support guy I know has it or is getting it. So, don't expect to get a job working on routers with that. Without real time on a production router most people won't care at all.
SAIR is not good. Basically they want you to buy THEIR books which spell the answers out for you. The LPI certs are very good and do a great job of being vendor neutral. I wrote an LPI study guide so I may be biased, but not much because I took both certs before deciding on which one to write.
When I took over my current job the last network team had overloaded the circuits in the server room. We've had 3 circuits trip and had servers drop hard. None of the Compaq SmartArray controllers had any problems recovering.
I suggest you also fix you power problem. The systems should have no idea power was lost to the building. If you are using a UPS and this is still happening, I'd find a better one.
It won't just get hot in the summer, it's going to be hot 24/7. All of your equipment has a rating for the amount of heat produced..from small things like disks and tape drives to big server enclosures. Look that information up and figure out how many BTUs of heat you'll be outputting. Then go find an AC unit that can handle it for your sized environment.
Power, Power, Power. Going to go with a big UPS or smaller ones for each rack? Talk to an electrician about circuits. Figure up how many amps of power you need and then decide on the number of circuits. They didn't do that in the room I took over and we've blown circuits three times, but it's been fixed on my watch.
I recommend a locking door, of course. Raised floors if you can do it. And always figure on another rack or two. They seem to multiply and working in a cramped server room switching equipment gets old.
NOTE: If anyone needs server racks in the RTP, NC area let me know. I have three that would be free to a good home. Glass front nice cases.
That's Linksys, not D-link. You can plug it in to a switch/hub for all your devices.
Instant Wireless to Ethernet Adapter (WET11) - The Wireless to Ethernet Adapter enables any PC, printer, router, hard drive, or other Ethernet-equipped network hardware -- with wireless LAN connectivity. It acts as a wireless converter to bridge wireless and Ethernet. Use the Wireless to Ethernet Adapter interchangeably with your PCs and network hardware to extend and customize your wireless network to your needs.
That's Linksys, not D-link. You can plug it in to a switch/hub for all your devices.
Instant Wireless to Ethernet Adapter (WET11) - The Wireless to Ethernet Adapter enables any PC, printer, router, hard drive, or other Ethernet-equipped network hardware -- with wireless LAN connectivity. It acts as a wireless converter to bridge wireless and Ethernet. Use the Wireless to Ethernet Adapter interchangeably with your PCs and network hardware to extend and customize your wireless network to your needs.
D-Link now has an Ethernet to 802.11 bridge. I plan to get one and drop it behind my home theater to get Ethernet to my Xbox, TiVo, and some MP3 streaming hardware. I'd rather not run CAT5 there for just these low bandwidth devices.
As a sysadmin, it's important to know what information you make public or leak out. All of the information presented here are things that normally are known. If you don't know my DNS, web, and email servers why do I bother setting them up?
This sounds dangerous to people not in the know, and may make a good article to read but I don't see an issue here. Some of it is very questionable. How do you really know they are running Solaris? That wouldn't be hard to mask.
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They are light on the details. What speed drives? What kind of internal controller? Anything in this box redundant or is all my storage gone when a power supply fails? Things like that are important, and they don't seem to mention it when I looked. I also question buying something like this from someone that makes nothing else even close.
We use the Compaq TaskSmart 2400N NAS. Yes, it runs Win2K but it's rock solid and very good. It's built around a normal Compaq server so we already have spares. It can do up to 10TB in Cluster config. It uses all standard Compaq drives and parts which can be shared among other systems. Plus, you can manage it from Insight Manager. It also exports out to NFS for UNIX clients.
It seems anyone that needed 1/2 TB on a NAS would already have other servers and would be better served going with their vendor's answer, assuming they had a good one.
I'm sure this device wasn't designed yesterday and frankly Mozilla wasn't ready for production until recently. On the other hand Opera has been going strong for a long time and has a proven track record. Sure, Mozilla may have been just great on your box, but that doesn't mean it would have done well on a handheld.
I'm an RHCE and have been an MCSE for about 8 years...well before the current flood of paper MCSEs using nothing but Transcenders to pass.
I took the RHCE last year and I was the only one out of 8 not to have taken the classes for it. There were several people there taking it for their 2nd or 3rd time. Bottom line, yes, it's a good lab exam but I could write up a study guide for it and have someone pass it in 2 weeks. That's exactly what will happen when the certification becomes valuable in the marketplace. It's not Microsoft's fault that a lot of MCSEs are clueless. It's the people writing get rich quick study guides and "sample" exams.
Now my disclaimer... I've written several study guides. One for the Linux LPIC and several MCSE tests. I write for the material and knowing that material well will get you through the exam. It annoys me to no end to see study guides that write just for the exam. It hurts everyone.
Of course everyone would like an office. But really, why should developers get them? What about the other workers? That's where it gets tricky. Developers are important, but so is accounting and sales.
Exchange 2K is different. It's built around SMTP, POP, LDAP, and iCalendar. It's using standard protocols. Where are the UNIX clients to support them?
It's easy to complain about Outlook and Exchange except there has been no real competition until now from Ximian, and that is only in the client piece. Exchange is a good system, just because it's from MS doesn't make it bad even if this is Slashdot.
This wasn't for Linux. This was the fully working Windows version with support.
Anyone remember when Corel wanted to go after MS Office? They started selling their Office suite (with WordPerfect) for $999 per network server with no user limit. You could have 200 people use one copy and only pay $5/user! Much cheaper than MS Office.
Guess what. No one bought it. Even at that price. Do they think people will switch to Star Office for over $100/user?
Terminal Server uses TCP Port 3389.
People seem to think they have a right to surf the net and send anything they want from work. Well, that's not the way it is. The computers and Internet connections are owned by the company. They don't pay people to do that stuff.
Due to viruses and other problems I've blocked any attachment capable of carrying a virus. Yes, it's sometimes a hassle but that's the way it is now. Management has requested we monitor the type of sites people visit just to make sure there isn't a big problem. So far they haven't requested user lists or specific sites. They won't until XXX sites start getting out of hand.
Viruses, security holes, and loss of productivity have caused these limits to be placed. Want to surf for fun, do it at home.
Read the agreement. What Microsoft doesn't want you to do is to use VNC to create a terminal services like server where you install an app once and share it with your network.
No one cares if you remote control it for administrative purposes.
It's called Multilinking and is part of PPP. It's done all the time with ISDN links. Most people don't exceed the bandwidth of cable/dsl so no one cares. If you want more speed just pay. I can get cable modems here up to 4Mb/sec and I've seen DSL in other parts of the country up to 7Mb/sec. No need for multilink.
As for the Nexland router, they just load balance by connection. Track how much each connection is being used and when the next user needs something you send it over the leased used line. That would be the only way to handle it.
As for the IPs...if you have more than 253 hosts inside you need to look at another device.
Check out the Nexland ISB Pro800Turbo Firewall/NAT box. It will load balance two broadband connections.
An average home user won't have multiple Internet connections. How many people have DSL and Cable at the same time? There are small NAT routers that do this on the cheap. If your company is paying a couple grand for Internet connections they will already have at least one router and probably more.
Good routing protocols handle congestion as well as downed links. EIGRP takes these in to account. We have two connections to the same Bellsouth POP and use Cisco's CEF for packet level load balancing and redundancy should one circuit fail. You can bundle many links using CEF, but they must all go to the same router. Multiple connections to different POPs would require BGP.
It isn't the firewall's job to do this, that is up to your router. Firewalls shouldn't get in the business of routing or handling routing protocols.
SSH isn't stupid. But why was it available to the outside world? You should only do firewall management from inside your network.
Go read the braindump sites.
"I read the study guide and took the test the next day. I've never even touched a router!"
Over and over and over and over. It's a beginner cert, but it's already way over diluted.
No. My skill set in that area doesn't let me bill at $200 per hour. If I had all the experience and a CCIE like the guys we hire then yes, I could bill that much. Even then, the consultants don't get $200/hour, the company they work for does.
The work we needed done wasn't real high end, but more than the previous employees could handle. Now we can handle it.
I took the CCNP exams last November after taking a two-week bootcamp course. I took over at my office and we were tired of paying $200/hour for consultants to do work we should be doing in house. The boot camp I took from Global Knowledge was excellent with very good instructors. The exams are tough but they ask real world questions.
If you want to study at home I suggest the Cisco Preparation Series books as well as a lot of equipment. Without being comfortable on the equipment it's hard to get used to all the commands and which one is appropriate in certain places.
I learned a lot in the class and getting the cert...things I use every day now and it has really cut down on our consulting expenses and makes me a lot more valuable.
The CCNA exam is a joke. Every desktop support guy I know has it or is getting it. So, don't expect to get a job working on routers with that. Without real time on a production router most people won't care at all.
SAIR is not good. Basically they want you to buy THEIR books which spell the answers out for you. The LPI certs are very good and do a great job of being vendor neutral. I wrote an LPI study guide so I may be biased, but not much because I took both certs before deciding on which one to write.
When I took over my current job the last network team had overloaded the circuits in the server room. We've had 3 circuits trip and had servers drop hard. None of the Compaq SmartArray controllers had any problems recovering.
I suggest you also fix you power problem. The systems should have no idea power was lost to the building. If you are using a UPS and this is still happening, I'd find a better one.
It won't just get hot in the summer, it's going to be hot 24/7. All of your equipment has a rating for the amount of heat produced..from small things like disks and tape drives to big server enclosures. Look that information up and figure out how many BTUs of heat you'll be outputting. Then go find an AC unit that can handle it for your sized environment.
Power, Power, Power. Going to go with a big UPS or smaller ones for each rack? Talk to an electrician about circuits. Figure up how many amps of power you need and then decide on the number of circuits. They didn't do that in the room I took over and we've blown circuits three times, but it's been fixed on my watch.
I recommend a locking door, of course. Raised floors if you can do it. And always figure on another rack or two. They seem to multiply and working in a cramped server room switching equipment gets old.
NOTE: If anyone needs server racks in the RTP, NC area let me know. I have three that would be free to a good home. Glass front nice cases.
That's Linksys, not D-link. You can plug it in to a switch/hub for all your devices.
Instant Wireless to Ethernet Adapter (WET11) - The Wireless to Ethernet Adapter enables any PC, printer, router, hard drive, or other Ethernet-equipped network hardware -- with wireless LAN connectivity. It acts as a wireless converter to bridge wireless and Ethernet. Use the Wireless to Ethernet Adapter interchangeably with your PCs and network hardware to extend and customize your wireless network to your needs.
That's Linksys, not D-link. You can plug it in to a switch/hub for all your devices.
Instant Wireless to Ethernet Adapter (WET11) - The Wireless to Ethernet Adapter enables any PC, printer, router, hard drive, or other Ethernet-equipped network hardware -- with wireless LAN connectivity. It acts as a wireless converter to bridge wireless and Ethernet. Use the Wireless to Ethernet Adapter interchangeably with your PCs and network hardware to extend and customize your wireless network to your needs.
D-Link now has an Ethernet to 802.11 bridge. I plan to get one and drop it behind my home theater to get Ethernet to my Xbox, TiVo, and some MP3 streaming hardware. I'd rather not run CAT5 there for just these low bandwidth devices.
As a sysadmin, it's important to know what information you make public or leak out. All of the information presented here are things that normally are known. If you don't know my DNS, web, and email servers why do I bother setting them up?
This sounds dangerous to people not in the know, and may make a good article to read but I don't see an issue here. Some of it is very questionable. How do you really know they are running Solaris? That wouldn't be hard to mask.