[olug] Community Colo Project

[Charles.Bird]

I love Cisco, Juniper, Force10 and especially open source routing. I'd like
to see a production network use only opensource routing sometime, it might
be good for us since we are thee open source advocates in the Omaha area.

I know of a few businesses using pfsense (one locally)and claim it has the
highest uptime of any of their networked devices. I believe they are using
DRBD with heartbeat for their failover. I had considered buying a Supermicro
twin (2 servers in 1U) for that purpose.


As far as the question of what would people do if participating in a
community colo, I would do some monitoring, host a few personal sites. One
site would be dedicated to my ugly hatered of an application called
"Mailenable" which is a mailserver that runs on windows server Grrrrrrr.....
Another site would be a logical discussion of why fortune 500 companies tend
to use alot of Microsoft, and how it doesnt really make sense to do so.
I would most likley have a monster Xen setup too and perhaps a server built
to be the loudest server ever with (8) 8000 rpm deltas, and an airhorn thats
triggered to go off whenever it detects motion. :)






On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally have no objections if you can put together a system
> that's as stable or more stable than a hardware router.  Call me
> biased if you'd like, it's just that I've spent the last week trying
> to get some phantom glitches out of one of my newer custom-built
> boxes.
>
> I don't have a whole lot of experience with the open source
> alternatives, just the underlying hardware, so I guess I have yet to
> see how stable the actual software really is.
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Curtis LaMasters
> <curtislamasters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's complex about it?  I have found pfsense much simpler to
> > configure typical features minus BGP compared to Cisco or Juniper and
> > I originally came from a Cisco background.  We can take this offline,
> > I'm fine with that.
> >
> > Curtis LaMasters
> > http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> > http://www.builtnetworks.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> >> By big problem with most FOSS routers and firewalls is the complexity,
> >> both in the hardware and the software.
> >>
> >> I never liked pfsense and always preferred the original m0n0wall exactly
> >> for that reason.
> >>
> >> Curtis LaMasters wrote:
> >>> I would vote FOSS for the firewall/router setup (pfsense or vyetta)
> >>> would work fine.  I could donate time for sure and hardware possibly
> >>> to accomplish that.  With pfsense we would have the ability to do VPN,
> >>> IDS/IPS, Failover, and even BGP if required, however, I'm with Phil
> >>> that BGP it's overkill. However, I do have one somewhat dumb question?
> >>>  What would you all put on the your community DC hosted servers?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Phil Brutsche
> >> phil at brutsche.us
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