The Cisco 7301 has 3 integrated Gig-E ports and one empty slot which we'll use with an OC3 SMI PA for a handoff to SAVVIS. (when will they ever go to Ethernet handoff?)
Is anyone here leasing a Cisco 7301 router, who can comment on the approximate monthly lease cost? I know the approximate retail cost, but can't really guess on the residual after 3, 4, or 5 year lease, so it's hard to estimate the approximate payment to expect. I don't want to get a salesperson involved yet because once they have your phone #, they never stop calling, and I'm not 100% certain we're going with the 7301 (versus a Juniper M5 or M7i).
1) I was recommended to chose the XL-EN model switches because it seems they have more Memory, but the second one in the list (Catalyst) is not a XL-EN, is that going to have any affect performance wise? or it doesn't really matter?
2) I was also recommended to choose managed switches because that way I can use the SNMP features to measure bandwidth, are any of the switches above unmanaged?
3) I also want to be able to manage the switch remotely, web managed, are any of the switches above web-manageable?
4) Most importantly, when my datacenter give me a 100mbit drop, I dont know which port to plug it in in the 29** series. In the 35** I see it clearly but I am not able to see it in the 29**, any ideas?
5) On some of these switches I see a special port called "Console", what is it? where does that connect to?
6) Do any of the switches above not have a console port?
I'm buying Cisco ASR 1000 router that should handle 2 Gbps bandwidth. Please advice on components, models, etc.
I have a vendor, but I'll appreciate any reference, based on your experience, on where to buy one at reasonable price. I think I can probably get refurbished ASR 1000 or similar as well, if the vendor can guarantee the quality of the device.
I have a requirement where one of our partner is planning to connect to our datacenter using a dedicated leased line.
As per our partner, they will engage a Leased line vendor for this. This vendor will terminate the leased line ( Single mode fiber -- SC connector) to the Comm room of our Colocation provider.
I have next to nothing knowledge about fiber connectivity and have few questions in this regard.
Q1. If Single mode fiber is terminated at COLO's Comm room in form of SMF SC connector, what kind of cross connect should we request from COlo's comm room to our cabinet. ( SMF / MMF )
Q2. How are these cross connects terminated in cabinet? Do Colo provider use some kind of fiber patch panel or they simply provide a fiber link with SC/LC connectors at the end of it?
Q3. If cross connect needs to be SMF SC then which cisco routers support SMF SC interfaces? Do I need SC-LC patch cable?
(I looked at the various option but could only find the following GLC-LH-SM or GLC-ZX-SM for SMF connectivity. I read about these and found that GLC-LH-SM is used for terminating single mode fiber that spans up to 10 km and GLC-ZX-SM is used for terminating single mode fiber that spans up to 70 km in length. It looks as if both of these support LC connectors. Are these the only two SMF connectivity options? Do I need SC-LC patch cable )
Q4. Our partner only tells us that the terminated link will be terminated using SMF SC. How to figure out if GLC-LH-SM or GLC-ZX-SM is required.
I've been shopping for routers, and I'm curious as to the capabilities of a Cisco 7206 VXR Router. Would an NPE-300 or NPE-400 be capable of running three BGP sessions for 100 Mbps? At what point would it start topping out bandwidth wise? How much RAM would be recommended? Is a PE-GE good enough for the connections that are delivered by gigabit ethernet?
I realize that some of you may be inclined to recommend talking to a network consultant, but at this stage that's probably premature. I'm in a planning stage at this point.
Fire sale at HE on used Cisco core router equipment
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I wonder if some data center will purchase it just to hook it up for the flashing lights... would be quite impressive. Wait a second, that was already done in North Atlanta and Las Vegas, wasnt it?
I wonder why HE didnt donate it to the tech museum in San Jose... would have been a better write off then selling it.
why I am musing so far off topic on a gorgeous Sunday morning?
I am in the process of gathering the peices to move from a dedicated box to my own hardware in a local colo and am undecided how best to choose the edge device.
The colo has a 30Mb pipe with about 10Mb of it being constantly used during biz hours. Another 10Mb is being allocated in the next couple of months. I want to be able to burst to the full 30Mb when needed.
I am getting 12 IP's allocated but will increase to 24 soon if all goes well (fingers crossed!).
I will have for starters just a single Proliant running dnp on 2008 with IIS, FTP, Mail, ns1 and a 2003 VM running my secondary ns.
What I am unsure of is the edge device and looking for others that have used either a 2800 series router or a ASA5500 series firewall in a similiar fashion. I know what the raw throughput of each device is, but raw benchmarks are not realworld numbers by any means.
I am looking at the 2801 with IOS Firewall turned on and hopefully even some inspects for FTP and HTTP traffic. The other option and one that I am less familiar with is to use the ASA5505 instead which will do my basic routing but supposedly provide more thourough inspects and advanced rules.
Does anyone have experiance with either of these in a hosting environment and have input on the realistic throughput one can expect from either device?
There is a signifigant cost difference with the ASA5505 being much cheaper but I am more familiar with IOS. Would anyone recommend a 1841 router instead?
There is a data center in an office building I manage. I need to lease rack space and the data center manager wants the job. They have made the following proposal:
1 to 4 racks priced at $350 each 5 to 9 racks priced at $300 each 10 to 19 racks priced at $250 each 20 and above priced at $200 each the management fee is included in above pricing
I do not know the industry standard for leasing commissions but more or less 50% seems high. What do you think? Whatis a fair deal for all?
Just found this site last night and I think it is agreat place to share information on dedicated server hosting.
Currently I have a set of dedicated servers with a hosting company, but they are Celeron D 2Ghz and I was thinking of building my own dedicated servers using Quad core Xeons. The only problem is my current host charges more for using your own server, than leasing theirs.
By charging more I mean in bandwidth the collocation fee is about the same but they only include 500 GB with the collocated server and 1.5 TB with the leased Celeron.
Do you know of a place that has really good connectivity, uptime and good pricing on collocating your own dedicated servers?
While browsing the offer sections and other providers, I noticed that there is a significant price difference per "1u" if it bought as a full rack vs. buying per unit.
For example, at Colopronto a 44u full-rack costs $550, which is about $12.50 per 1u on average.
While browsing the forums and colo providers, it seems like 1u goes for $50+.
Is it a good business idea to lease a full-rack to resell as 1u to customers? Is it that simple, or more involved?
I am having a big question which has been often asked, but which all the time depends on the network topology; so first let's be honnest :
- I have no experience with BGP / OSPF - I have no experience with routers (except SOHO models - I will not have to make this to work in a productive environment
So in the next month we will get an AS number and few IP addresses; the goal is to test drive a gigabit network before using it as productive network;
I would like to ask some advices here for early all aspecsts, let's show some important points :
- Which brand? - Which model? - Maybe refurbished?
The key points for me:
I am looking for a cheap chasis but extensible with time when it will be needed
- Extensible system - Very cheap for small use (at beginning maximum $ 2-3k) - Trafic rate : ~ 100 MBit/s to 4-5 GBit/s - Type of trafic : HTML / JPG / GIF / PNG / CSS / EXE / ZIP (shared hosting network)
getting my own AS number, but this seems to require also a router. I don’t really have a strong knowledge of routing, just basic knowledge.
As I think I understood, I have two possibilities for routing, to buy a ready-made router (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel,…) or to simply setup a simple box with Linux or BSD OS, some NIC and use a software such as Zebra, Quagga, etc…
So my question is :
- Is it possible to use for professional purposes a BSD box with Zebra ? - What is entry price for a good Cisco router (approximately) ? - Does BASIC routing setup requires a very strong knowledge ?
In case this would became concrete soon, people answering could maybe get some paid work doing this for us.
I regiested a IP address from one company and I can post my website on internet. that company give me an IP address someting like: 167.23.42.100. Right now My internet speed is very slow, I want to reset my router. If I reset my router, router will produce a new IP address, Does this IP address is same as 167.23.42.100. IF i reset router, do i need to change my website address. I am worry that resetting router will affect my website address(domin name).
Maybe router IP is different as doman name. so I don't need to worry about
I am looking for a good router which will handle two separate WAN connections and bridge them together. Basically, we have DSL at our office (1.5mbps down / 769kbps up), its the only service we can get, cable is not offered, and a T1 inst fast enough and costs too much. We require a faster connection, doing Skype, VPN connections to servers, desktop sharing etc.
Basically we want to order another DSL line 1.5mbps down / 768 kbps up and join it together with our current DSL connection for a total of 3mbps down/1.5mbps up.
Just want to make sure this is possible and if you guys can recommend a router brand and model. To clerify, we don't just want redunacy/fail over, we need to utilize both DSL connections at the same, as if they were one.
I need 1U of space, .5 amp (50 watts) power, one IP, 2.5mbps bidirectional bandwidth (total of 5mbps up + down) and about 10GB of traffic per day each direction (total of 20GB up + down). Would be nice if they have remote KVM along with console (serial) access. Location should be anywhere in USA.
Purpose is to host a VPN router for various remote locations to connect in to. Reliability and good connection (low latency) is important.
We are looking for a good multiple WAN router for our office. We just ordered two DSL 3.0mbps down / 768kbps up lines.
Here are the requirements:
--> Under $500
--> 2 WAN Load Balanced And Fail Over Support
--> Smart enough to handle special session state traffic. Example, if you start a HTTPS session on one DSL line it has to stay on that line. If you start an FTP session connection on one line it has to stay on that line.
--> VPN Tunnel Site-To-Site Support, Only need a max of 1 site-to-site tunnel, but nice to have more just in case.
We have a small hosting company (currently 24 racks) that we are expanding to hold 100 racks. We have several 3640 series routers behind a 7200 series router (our edge router) that feed into numerous 2950 switches and 515 & 525 pix firewalls then into the racks with customer supplied switches within the rack. I want to replace all the 3640 and 2950 switches with a 6500 series switch. The only routing we do within the 3640's is subnet routing to the switches which make up individual networks for each customer. My goal is to use the 6500 switch to limit bandwidth for each port feeding a customer and to eliminate all but the 7200 router and the 2950 switches. Does anyone know of a reason or reasons this would not work or if it's just a bad idea. Looking for pro's and con's,
i got one fully managed ip range from my isp around 256 ips to use on my networks. Basically i want to set up gateway, segment the 256 ips into two parts, each part with 128 ips. detail below
1, nameserver 123.123.123.2 and 123.123.123.3 3, first part gateway 123.123.123.4 and ip use from 123.123.123.5-123.123.123.128 4, second part gateway 123.123.123.129 and ip use from 123.123.123.130 - 123.123.123.255
what i am using? centos 5.2 with vconfig installed
what i did? 1.i add the name server 123.123.123.2 and 123.123.123.3 to /etc/resolv.conf 2,i add the gateway 123.123.123.4 and 123.123.123.129 to /etc/sysconfig/network and added line" VLAN=yes" 3,i edited eth1 with following setting
We currently have a single 100Mpbs (currently pushing ~40Mpbs) feed from a single upstream provider. Routing is handled by our transit provider.
We wish to provide a more resilient setup and are now looking to install our own BGP router(s) and take a second feed from another provider. I have a looked around the Cisco website and this forum but am unsure which model of routers / layer 3 switch we should be looking at.
A layer 3 switch looks more cost effective but doesn't appear to support enough routes for BGP without great expense. Would a 2600 router be enough or should I be looking at something higher like the 7600 series?
The network will be designed like : we have 3 providers of IP transit, one will be the main network while the two other will feed the first network and manage a highly available network, probably using protocols like BGP4 and OSPF.
The current size of each fiber is 45 Mbit/s per operator. So I am looking for :
A router : - able to handle each provider with up to 200 MBit/s in/output - able to support protocol such as BGP4 or OSPF - able to output snmp for monitoring - have a little intuitive GUI for basic operations and have a real routing OS (like IOS or JunOS) - is branded and warrantly (a plus would be hardware extensible) - not too big box, something between 1 and 6U
A firewall : - able to handle ALL the traffic to all carrier - able to work as a SPF (drop all, allow only what I want, very accurate rules) - have a little intuitive GUI for basic operations - not too big box, something between 1 and 6U
About brand, most probably about Cisco, Juniper, Extreme or some good brand.
Which model would you advice me as router and which as firewall ? The price is not the main proccupation until it will do job just fine, but I would prefer to don't buy too expensive also.
We have a project in mind and we are planning on using a Cisco 7140 to push about 80Mbps over ethernet. Do you think the 7140 will be enough or it will get maxed out? (the 7140 is supposed to be like the 7200VXR NPE-300).
The routing would be thorugh BGP with partial routes.
I have decided to finally remove all my servers rented from provider to provider to one single place.
I want to manage everything, so basically route the traffic (at this time without BGP or OSPF), my current average of traffic for all servers together would be about 15 Mbit/s with top at 35-45 Mbit/s.
I want to buy a cheap router (no computer router), I'd like to buy a chassis with very extensible and upgradable router, so I can start with a basic card and later use BGP (and maybe OSPF) and have ability to push from 30 Mbit/s (to over 1000 Mbit/s by upgrading cards and memory).
So, which (refurbished or not) chassis can I buy ? Which card would you setup with it ?
The important is really the ability to start with low cost configuration and go up to very high rates without having to change all (of course once I will be average over...).
I hate to ask this, because I bet it's been asked many times before, but I want to start a little class teaching web development at a local night school and I wanted to set up a LAN using my laptop, CentOS, and a wireless router.
The idea is to have the students develop their pages and download files and get used to the idea of what a server is.
I see about ten students sitting in a room, popping open their laptops, logging onto the network, and then pointing their browsers to a certain IP address which would be the home page for the class.
If this is possible, can anybody point me in the right direction to teach myself how to do it?
