[12:55] Good morning #ubuntu. :) [12:58] morning tenc, how are you doing? [13:26] Doing great. How about you wrst? [13:27] yep doing well for a monday morning :) [14:36] ipv6 addresses are much hard to copy by sight... [14:42] Other things I've observed this morning: in the set {logout, quit, exit} the correct command will always be the last one I issue. [14:54] ha ha [14:54] ipv6 addresses give me a headache :) [15:31] good morning [15:31] howdy netritious_ === netritious_ is now known as netritious [15:32] sorry I missed you last week wrst...having probs out of my ancient ups' [15:32] ha ha netritious [15:32] that does not sound like fun [15:32] batteries? [15:33] yep..scored two off of amazon for $30+free shipping [15:33] nice especially on the free shipping, them there batteries be heavy [15:33] yessir [15:36] atm trying to find just the right mini itx board. the project requires 4+ RJ45 but for under $225 isn't easy lol...unless you want jetway. [15:36] just the name, jetway, does not instill confidence [15:36] board+cpu+ram+case+psu+4 or more RJ45 [15:37] can we ask what the projuce is? or will you have to kill us? [15:37] if you would have to kill us I would rather not know [15:38] lol nothing special...moving a firewall install from "in beta forever" to dedicated machine [15:38] nice [15:39] zotac has some nice borads with wifi built-in, but then it has a geforce GT 5xx soemthing or the other...not needed for a firewall, at least not mine heh [15:40] you building your own as far as software, or doing something pfsensish? [15:41] going to install pfsense 9.1 that uses the new PBI packaging [15:43] nice, I have no need whatsover for any of that but would love to give it a try :) [15:43] 9.0-RELEASE JustWorks™ [15:44] sure you do wrst [15:44] you just don't know it lol [15:44] I'm sure I could think of something [15:44] well, dansguardian for one [15:44] I mean do I really need a FreeNAS system in my house [15:44] great for anyone that has kids [15:45] true netritious, right now I'm letting opendns filter, which is not perfect, but dans guardian without help is such a pain to even attempt for a mortal like me to set up [15:45] captive portal for controlling time spent on teh network [15:45] yeah wrst, it's that time thing [15:45] that's pretty cool [15:45] some of us could do it /if we had the time/ [15:46] yes exactly [15:46] also on captive portal control bandwidth rates. can set global and get granular as well. [15:47] *also with captive portal you can [15:47] hmm could keep the HD youtubes from killing my connection and sentence them to 480P [15:47] :) [15:48] yep. also there is QoS control that works by applying bandwidth filters dynamically based on type of traffic. (pfsense has a wizard thank God.) [15:49] ha ha yes I do a very limited QoS on my dd-wrt router, to keep uploads from killing my connection but that's it [15:56] I like x86 because it's almost completely open. I can add/change/remove most hardware components at will on x86 platform, whereas with ARM/RISC based systems the hardware is much more "fixed" and not designed for much if any after market modifications. [15:56] just talking about hardware hear, not software [15:56] *here [15:57] agreed [15:57] its much much easier [15:57] I saw that intel had an SD card sized x86 system [15:58] would love to see x86 chips with the power benefits of arm [15:58] or x86 completely ported to ARM...that would work...mostly lol [15:59] software I mean [15:59] ahh yes that would work also [16:32] We have outgrown our SAN at work that we use for VMWare and I'm looking to add some NFS storage. What OS would you guys recommend? I need two boxes that will mirror each other in case of failure. I may have to get something that I can get paid support on in order to appease the higher-ups. :) [16:40] to say I'm no expert is a great understatement but have heard good things about ixsystems [16:41] ah. We already have the hardware. [16:42] ahh gotcha [16:43] I used redhat a long time ago. I think suse is used in the enterprise too. [16:45] I've read about drbd and glusterfs. Anyone have any experience with either of those? [17:08] can't say about gluster...I've read quite a bit, but nothing deployed. [17:08] drbd, well get ready for some fun heh [17:09] That sounds ominous. :) [17:10] I had problems with a heartbeat+drbd setup, but in the end I think it was heartbeat filling an 10GB / with 4GB logs [17:11] anyway, I would mount the drbd block as /var/vm and store vmware images there [17:12] when it worked it worked well, but it was a stupid setup rife with opprotunities for something to fail [17:13] That in a nice thing about our HP SAN. It just works. But $45k for 6TB of usable space, I would prefer not to order another one. :) [17:16] I've seen some generic sata disk storage units that would connect to a PC via esata, the PC being the SAN host. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 to a few $1,000 [17:17] I would just use some linux distro you like, create some raid devices via mdadm, and export NFS [17:18] We have a couple of HP server with 8 removable HD each. [17:19] mdadm is software raid, right? [17:23] mdadm is software raid but it works really really well. I've relied on it now for a few years and store around 2+ terabytes with plenty of room to grow [17:23] RAID1+hot spares+hot swap 3.5" sata drive bays [17:24] would you use drbd again? [17:24] not unless someone paid me to lol [17:26] you might want to check out corosync(?) [17:26] spelling might be wrong [17:27] ceph maybe? [17:28] nope, I meant corosync http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/corosync [17:30] gotcha. [17:30] there's a better wikipedia page [17:32] if you decide to get into clustering though I would recommendl reading the drbd manual section on terminology since you will encounter a whole new set of errors that you really wouldn't see coming without maybe a cluster engineering degree...if one of those exist [17:32] even if you don't use drbd [17:34] That's probably a good idea. [19:27] Have you looked at Openfiler twayneprice [19:28] mucho reccamendo [20:06] average_guy: yea, I've looked at it and FreeNas. Have you had it syncing with 2 or more machines?