I've got installed in a VM at home for playing about with. Only issue is that there is no vmtools, haven't searched for a way to install them yet, might not even be possible.
think it's a modified version of Debian. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected] From: Kurt Buff <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 17/09/2009 17:33 Subject: Re: Abandoning Cisco Not that bad... What a ringing endorsement! Heh. I'm still going to investigate Vyatta, and see if they support the Sangoma card. I know it's built on top of a Linux distro, but can't remember which one. Failing that, I will probably gravitate to CentOS, as spending $11k isn't very palatable in this economic climate. It would be nice to know why Sangoma dumped BSD, but since it's almost certainly not a reversible decision, it's not worth my time to investigate. Kurt On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:52, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: > Fedora and CentOS are not that bad, if you're coming from FreeBSD. I would > definitely look at CentOS, because Fedora has a high entropy factor. I've > always been a huge BSD fan, but it's utility is being marginalized all the > time. Really wish that community would wake up. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, we *are* a relatively small firm. But, we've got about 230 >> people on site, including about 80-90 (if memory serves) hardware and >> software engineers, and then there are the sales staff, and our >> customer installation/support staff, etc. >> >> We do need relatively serious bandwidth, though we couldn't justify >> the cost of a full DS3. We have a 5mbit soft cap on the DS3 - if we >> exceed that limit at the 95th percentile of the course of the month, >> it's an extra $100/mbit - I can't remember what the base cost is, but >> I think it's in the $1100 range. We've never exceeded the cap for more >> than about an hour at a time, and when you factor in the down times >> overnight and on the weekends, it works out really well. But it's >> *really* nice to have it for those really large downloads. >> >> We got a screaming deal on it because the fiber was in the building, >> not being used, and NTT was looking for money. We also have a T1, from >> a different ISP, which isn't being used at the moment. I had planned >> on implementing BGP on the router I built, but that might have to wait >> a while. >> >> It seems that the manufacturer of the DS3 interface card I bought two >> of (Sangoma A301) has dropped support for FreeBSD, and only supports >> Fedora Core and CentOS. I'm not a fan of Linux, so I'm considering my >> options, and got a quote for a Cisco machine that does DS3 and has a >> couple NICs in it for about $11k. But, given that there are some >> interesting drop-in packages for open source routing, I might >> investigate one of those. Something like XORP, Vyatta, Quagga, or one >> of the others. I'll have to learn how to configure BGP, but I figure I >> can get the ISPs to help out with that. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 17:57, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: >> > <questions prompted by bandwidth envy> >> > >> > DS3? Holy cow! Haven't you written here that you're at a small mfg >> > facility or something like that? What on earth do you use all that >> > bandwidth for? >> > >> > </questions prompted by bandwidth envy> >> > >> > >> >> I *love* my Sidewinders. When I purchased them it was from Secure >> >> Computing, but they've since been bought by McAfee, I'm afraid. >> >> >> >> They have excellent prosy services, which some find annoying, but I >> >> find very reassuring.. I also find them easy to manage. >> >> >> >> I have two at HQ in an HA configuration in front of my DS3, and two >> >> smaller ones, one in each of my foreign offices. Very nice to manage. >> >> Of course the reseller was a good part of that. We got them through >> >> NCA, and the folks I dealt with there were stellar. >> >> >> >> I cannot comment on Cisco firewalls, since I've never used them. >> >> >> >> Kurt >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ==================================================================== http://www.quinn-insurance.com This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. The contents should not be copied nor disclosed to any other person. 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