I know typically at least CAT5 cable is to be used for FE or Gig-E Ethernet links, but can CAT3 cable be used at short distances? I know there is little to none cost difference in the cable price, but I am only allowed to used the preinstalled cable at this location which is CAT3 which is what Verizon typically runs for telephone cables.
View 14 RepliesHas anyone worked with the cable companies on internet connections for hosting? Eg. Comcast, TW.
I worked with a sales rep for Comcast a few years ago on a solution for our offices. He worked out a line that would give us 3+mbits up speed for less then the price of a T1.
It also included a dedicated line to our offices. Would using a cable line be a bad idea for a hosting connection?
I'm having a hard time finding a source that has the Supermicro CBL-0084L splitter cable in stock. Any suggestions where I could get my hands on about 10 to 20 of these at a reasonable price? Maybe more if the price is right.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have had a few Colo and Dedicated servers but I have decided that the traffic I am getting on my sites warrants using a large setup so I have four servers that I need to colo to one site.
My major question is that when I go colo they generally only supply one Cat 5 cable and what is the best setup to have for a switch/router? Generally you get enough IP addresses to have one per server so my guess is that you can just plug the switch/router in and away you go?
I am going to have one server as a load balancer then two as the load balanced pair and then a database server.
SoftLayer recently added TW Cable to their BGP mix. However, it is Time Warner Cable, while the ones I usually see is TW Telecom.
View 12 Replies View RelatedWe are looking for new network cable labels...
Perhaps something like this:
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What distributor are you guys using for cable management?
So we have 10 racks of mess in our custom colo cage. Each rack currently has 20+ servers, most with dual network interfaces hooked up, most racks with two switches and 3+ apc remote power strips per rack. Each rack is an APC 4 post unit [url]
We have no cable management trays and currently tie up cables with velco and zapstraps, trying to keep power cables to the left and cat5 cables to the right. Unfortunately, even with all our effort, it's really turning into a wall of cabling that is basically insulating each rack and causing a temperature issue (or the potential for one at least).
Even worse, we want to add in KVM over IP hooked up on nearly every server. While I see the great benefits of the KVM, I can't see how on earth we are going to make the cabling work out!
i was trying to search for reviews on time warner cable and was not able to find any. I would like to hear from ppl using it like what is the quality of bandwidth and what is their pricing structure.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a Linux Server (CentOS 4.4) running, it has two network cards.
1. Onboard 100MBit (eth0), uses DHCP to obtain IP, this card is the only one that is able to connect to the internet.
IP: 192.168.1.13
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Bcast: 192.168.1.255
2. PCI Gigabit card (eth1), uses static IP, and is connected to my Windows machines via a CROSSOVER cable.
IP: 192.168.2.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: NONE
Bcast: 192.168.2.255
Before I installed the gigabit card all internet was working fine. However now i cannot even ping? here is some more info:
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[root@node home]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
inet addr:192.168.1.13 Bcast:192.168.1.225 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fee9:69de/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:473 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:60513 (59.0 KiB) TX bytes:497973 (486.3 KiB)
[root@node home]# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe7d:46/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15996232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7250441 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1137563077 (1.0 GiB) TX bytes:437192485 (416.9 MiB)
Interrupt:177 Base address:0x2f00
[root@node home]# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.39.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.123.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
[root@node home]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.39.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.123.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
[root@node home]#
Im sure its just a few lines I need to change somewhere, just not sure where?
I put this in the co-location section since I am co-locating a server that I host a few Websites on. The server is located in the Pacfic Northwest at a hosting company out there. As you may know, this is a "more remote" area of the United States.
Today, the company lost all Internet access when a Fiber optic cable went down. Not only was my stufff down but the entire hosting company was down. In 10 years of doing Internet development, I have never seen this happen to any hosting company I have worked with no matter how good or bad they were. On top of that, it happened one time last year as well.
According to my co-location provider, the problem happened a long way up stream. SO far that the lines cannot be backed up. Is this true? Could a fiber optic cable fail at some point where it cannot be switched over to another line?
I don't know if I should I believe that or not. It would seem to me that it is a matter of money and they may not have a back-up system in place if the pipe goes down. Is it possible? Who's fault is it?
Should i use a filber cable line for hosting server?
and which methods to security my hosting server such as : which Firewall, ANti-virus, ..?
I have a laptop and redhat box. The laptop has wireless card and connected to internet using wireless router. Can I connect to redhat box to laptop using cross over cable and use internet? If so, how can I do it?
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View 14 Replies View Relatedif anyone have experience with remote MySQL server setup
I have 2 servers in the same datacenter, 1 serve as web server, and 1 serve as mysql server.
would my remote MySQL server slows down my site load if it's not connected through cross cable? it's on the same datacenter though
Like the title says it: Is there anywhere in the bay area where I could colo a box and get a cable tv feed without paying an arm and a leg? Nothing illegal going on here either
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