What Did You Do Today???

murankar

murankar

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I have a nice little setup in the basement now.

I have 3 cisco 3560 8 port PoE layer 3 switches. My gigabitethernet 0/1 ports dont want to go into no shut.

I have all three switches connecting together and one is set to route traffic. I have my have idrac on a vlan, one of the 8 ethernet s. Hooked into this little lan. my goal is to get gns3 on it's own server and start working on ccent
 
Tony

Tony

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Yea, I have a 48 port layer 3 poe switch, and I just have it setup as a switch with one port turned on for poe lol. Bit of overkill, but I got the switch for $66. Need to build a rack to mount the servers and such. Some day.
 
murankar

murankar

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J am thinking of going in debt for 3 routers to go with the 3 switches. I don't think I need a full 48 ports for a small lab.


My setup like I said is 3 vlans. One is for management, one is for my buffalo terra station (8 terrabites) and the final vlan is for my clients. Right now I have 2 Panasonic Cf 52s and a RPI 3. It's fun playing around but the reading is so dry . Lol
 
Tony

Tony

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I know you know this, but just be careful of double nat'ing.

I could setup the routing function on my switch, but I am running a vm with pfsense in my server with a dedicated 4 port intel nic and I have my Linksys router set as just a wireless access point now.

As for my switch, I have 26 cables that I can plug in at any time so it's justified, but mine is not a lab either, mine is "full production" I guess you could say lol. I do need to do a lot of work on the setup though. Mainly with more cameras, getting a good patch panel, rack mounting everything and just cleaning up that birds nest lol. My server room looks nothing like my helicopters hahaha.
 
murankar

murankar

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My main network (cable modem and wifi) is ran to my server on eth port 8 which is a completely different card than my idrac card. Port 8 serves internet to my other VMs. I am going to attempt to double nic my ubuntu server for gns3. Each network will segragted from one another. Basically I dont plan on passing internet through the lab side. Soni dont think I should have issues.

I should take pics and post up the current setup.
 
murankar

murankar

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Here is the work station. I just set this up so its not tidy yet.

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For now this is all I got. The breakdown of this setup is as follows:

Red cables are trunk lines connecting every switch together. Basicllay a triangle topology. The white cable is for users (I need like 5 more more cables to fill put the user vlan.) The 2 black lines are for the terra station, I have one line on vlan 500 and one on vlan 700. I am thinking of making vlan 600 and 700. All this is for another post at a later time. Anyhow the lavender lines are for the Dell server. One feed the idrac and the other feeds the ubuntu gns3 server. My Dell is set up to run xenserver. So I can have basically what ever I want.

Here is my server. This area is not to par yet either. Again I just got all this setup yesterday and I have been super busy doing other people's crap. This is where I am at right now.

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M

Matt

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Monday, I flew 3 batteries in my Blade Nano S2. I was practicing front flips and nose in hover. Good day after all..
 
murankar

murankar

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Here I. North east Ohio we have a super winter storm front going through. Winds gusting to 30 or so miles an hour, themps are near 10°F or -3C. Lake erie is supposed to be producing 20 foot waves or use to 7 meter for those of not US. for dinner I got the great idea to grill chicken wings. I did half I italian and half in terraki. I also made brats and hit dogs. And for the record I am a mustard only on brats and dog. Now if I have Bertmanns then its stadium mustard. No ketchup here.
 
murankar

murankar

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I have spent way to mlm such money since christmas. On the bright side my credit score is around 700 now so hey. Anyhow time to pay off debt.


My network stuff is coming along. I got the switches setup with inter-valn routing set up. The Joy's of layer 3 switches. I have 3 vlans to user vlans a management vlan and a server vlan. Next is a data vlan for the ftp storrage device.

As for the servers, I am struggling right now getting a working server. Xenserver is being a real huge pita at the moment. I found out that the older debian 7 template is not useful at all. Tpu need to have the debian 8 template together anything useful for a shell. I may not have amy time tomorrow to work on anything. I hope this weekend I can though. My goal at this point is to provide basic services on a private network. Web, mail, ftp, DNS and who knows what else. At some point this summer in hope to transfer this over to a small group of rasberry Pi units. Make a portable lab sounds fun.

Time to get back to work and then studying.
 
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murankar

murankar

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I got the home network lab going now. I have xenserver running 24/7 now. I 2 dns servers running, 1 web server built on a Lamp stack, I have the vm running for the mail server, I have apache running just soni can resolve to the server. Plus I think I want to build in a web interface for web mail. I also have a NAS configured on it's own vlan. This makes file transfers I tad faster because the traffic is dedicated. I dont have server traffic interfering with the storage.

My switches are built and configured for base operation with remote telnet admin setup. I setup my ip pool based on a trip 255.224 mask. This gives 8 networks with 30 usable hosts. The switches are all layer 3 but only one is set to routing. My only non routable vlan of the 8 is the management vlan. I think cisco automatically blocks the Management vlan once its named management. I didn't block it. With vlans you want the management vlan unaccessabke from the outside world. The only way to gain access to it is by putting the port into that vlan and IPing the client for that network.

Anyhow that's where I am at for the moment. I need to get the mail server up and running. Then I can start working on the network stuff. Oh and i still have firewall stuff to address. Not overly concerned since it's a private internal non forward facing setup. I do however have virtual nics that I can shutdown once software is installed and updated. Once those nics are down there is no outside access. This makes SSL and TLS un needed for the most part. I still need to know it but right now it's the basics.
 
Rob Lancaster

Rob Lancaster

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Oh man, I can see you guys have been busy..
So have I.
After get'n my bro's car back on the road, and taking care of the water heater problem, our 27 year old dishwasher went south again, LOL! What, what a pile of,,,, nah just joking.... I threw her a final salute and have a new one on order.. We paid even more this time, (of course), and I'll just bet it s%#@ts out in less than half the time. You guys know what I'm talking about right..

But wait; there's more..
Our close washer started to freak out and do what ever it wanted to with the laundry.. How's this!,, I was out side late get'n another beer and out of the corner of my eye I see the LEDs on our 5 year old washer's control panel flickering. Say what!? Now I know I'm not imagining things. So Tom and I go in for a closer look. In short, it's a faulty control board. It to is on order...

Oh so you guys think that's all?
No, Oh noooo,....
Next up, our 7 year old refrigerator/ freezer!!! What da %@*&^% now?!!
Seems the defroster heater won't shut off, DOH!! We can barely maintain freezing..
These replacement parts should arrive tomorrow...………
Stay tuned, LOL!!.………
 
murankar

murankar

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Sounds like the rc hobby. Lol. Build fly crash fix rinse repeate.

I am there with ya on my car. I still have 1 rotor to replace, my drive shaft, 2 lower control arms, right side half shaft and the exhaust flex pipe all need fixed this spring. I know how it feels. Good thing is that I should have the p o s paid off by June.
 
Tony

Tony

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First post from the new computer. To say this went off without a hitch, would be a lie. More in tonight's live stream on Twitch.
 
murankar

murankar

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Oooooooh new PC huh. I might be able to join in tonight we shall see. Dont know what the misses has planned. Oh I get off early tonight. Had to come I early
 
D.O.G.

D.O.G.

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Very nice Tony. I think I can here you drooling in your video Lol. I should be able to join in on twitch this evening :).
 
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