rate my rack

Fri, Jun 9, 2006

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So the Sun Netra T1 105 that I lobotomized while trying to netboot freebsd has been reborn thanks to a new motherboard from ebay (all of $5). I’ve installed FreeBSD 6.1 on it and have configured it to replace the P3 500mhz box that was acting as gateway/firewall for the cable modem. It seems to be chugging along well, and has a good bit more ram. I was asked for a picture of the rack so here it is:
As I’m not in the mood to setup some flicker-like image annotation, I’ll list the items from top to bottom.

• Cisco 2950 Switch
• DSL Modem
• Cisco PIX 506E
• Cable Modem
• Sun Netra T1 105 360Mhz UltraSparc IIi w/ 1GB of ram running FreeBSD 6.1
• IBM Netfinity 4000R 2x800Mhz P3 with 2GB of ram running Gentoo Linux
• Compaq SCSI Drive Array used by the Netfinity ~100GB Raid5
• APC SmartUPS 2200 - needs new batteries
• Dead Netra T1 105 400Mhz
• APC SmartUPS 1400
• APC SmartUPS 600
• Dell GX1 P3 500Mhz 512MB ram
• AMD 2400 Based box, 256mb ram, 1TB of disk, running gentoo linux

There are also three other machines running:

• AMD 1800 based, 512mb ram, 36gb drive, 1 DDS3 autoloader, 1 DDS4 drive, running gentoo linux
• Sun UltraSparc5 - running Solaris 10 ‘05 release
• Dell P3 800 Counterstrike server

Thats about it for machines. The main ones being the Netfinity, Netra and AMD 1800. The Netfinity handles web, email and homedir storage. The Netra just acts as a squid proxy and firewall. The AMD 1800 backs up the Netfinity box, as I would have a very large cow if my data were to disappear. I’ll try and put together a network routing diagram later as some people might find it interesting (or scary).
On the rubycomplete front, I’m working on improving completion in ActiveRecord models and controllers, once that’s done I’ll release the changes I’ve made.