[olug] Community Colo Project

[Phil Brutsche]

I'm game.

Some thoughts:

Equipment costs will be a non-issue, I have free 2600s, 3620s, 3640s,
and 2900XL and 3500XL switches coming out my ears ;)

Even with a 20Mbps pipe a 3620 should be more than enough - Cisco rates
them @ 10-20Mbps max, but that's assuming a worst case of 64-byte
packets, and it's pretty common for "typical" packets to be 300-500
bytes. A 3640 will absolutely do it but space could be at a premium, and
a 3640 is a 2U unit.

We'll also want to consider a 1U "utility server" with serial ports for
router & switch console access, TFTP, cacti or mrtg or ... for graphs,
etc. I have a number of machines that would be perfect for the job ;)

Dan Clough wrote:
> Finances are of course the most limiting factor, so keeping it cheap
> and simple is the key to success.  I think one rack, 10 or 20Mbps and
> a /26 or /27 block of IPv4 addresses would be more than enough to
> start out with.  What do you guys think about such a venture?

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us