Thanks guys!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Travis Johnson 
  To: Tom Sharples ; WISPA General List 
  Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)


  We installed several Intel Gigabit cards in our old Imagestream and they 
worked great. They were the $40 Intel desktop cards.

  Travis
  Microserv


  Tom Sharples wrote: 
Just received the imagestream gateway router (vintage 2006 or so) , 
unfortunately it's equipped with 4-port T1/E1 cards, not ethernet cards 
(sigh). Does anyone know if these will work with standard (e.g. 3com, intel, 
whatever) 10/100 ethernet adaptors, or do we have to use a proprietary card?

Thanks,

Tom S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom DeReggi" <[email protected]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vyatta?


Well, for that many NIC included, you got a steal.
A single 4port Intel oem Gig card PCI-e costs $430 new.

(Actually that is probably not true, cause its probably an older model that
doesn't have PCI-E nic cards.)

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Sharples" <[email protected]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vyatta?


I picked up the Gateway model, equipped with nine 4-port ethernet expansion
boards, for $625 on Ebay. Seems like a good deal altho I don't know what
this model costs new with the added ports. Way more than we really need. I'm
looking forward to trying it out tho.

Tom S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vyatta?


Call support and they can fix your ImageStream issues.  Need to push a
little bit and use the phone.  To this day I've not had a response to
my emails without a phone call.

On 4/6/10, Scott Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
  On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:37:54PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
    I really think you'll love ImageStream...
      I don't mind the three living ImageStream TransPort routers we
inherited.  Once I changed the editor to default to vi, I was pretty
happy.

I am not much of a fan of the interface configuration, though it is
currently more flexible and transparent than pfSense for multiple
subnets on the same interface.  The shellcmd plugin lets me have a GUI
to get around the current inadaquacy of the interface configuration GUI
of pfSense 1.2.3.

I do find that I will make a change to the default route on the
Interface Configuration file; it will reload sand; and I will have to
go to bash and route delete default, route add default gateway newip
manually.  Or, I will put a new subnet on an interface and can't get
OSPFd to talk on that interface until I reboot the box.

Just stopping and starting OSPFd didn't work.  I don't know if that is
an indication that I have bad hardware or what.  Using suspect gear for
your first experience with a platform is probably not the best situation
for figuring out what is what.  The other 4 inherited TransPorts all
have one or more blown ethernet ports so I haven't been able to use
them.  I can't point to anything on the other three that screams "I'm
busted."

Having to reboot is really annoying.  Having to use the shell to
manually apply desired configuration changes, annoying, but at least
they give me the tools to do it. :-) I like flexibility.

The biggest problem I have with going whole hog for the ImageStreams is,
it would take me much longer to train guys to run the ImageStreams than
it will take to train them to run pfSense.  The secondary problem is
cost :

pfSense on Alix:          $204         3 eth
pfSense on soekris:       $275-350     4 eth

ImageStream on TransPort: $900 new     4 eth
                          $600 e-bay.  3 eth

We only do about 20 to 30 Mbps where I will have these deployed.  More
horsepower would be wasted.  The BGP running pfSense box is a bit
beefier than the Alix boxes, but didn't quite cost as much as a new
TransPort.

    On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Scott Lambert
<[email protected]>wrote:

      On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:52:41PM -0400, Glenn Kelley wrote:
        Scott

One limitation currently with BGP is you cannot have more than 1
peer.
I am awaiting that fix myself.
          In the GUI anyway.

1. mount -u -w /

2. vi config file

3. Don't change the config in the gui again until it gets updated to
  handle more peers.

That's why I love pfSense, if the GUI doesn't support it, I can still
make it work.

I only need one peer for now.  The only reason it needs to speak BGP is
so I can announce a subset of our ARIN space to the transit provider.

I've been tempted to just pkg_add quagga.  But my long term goal is to
not be the only guy here who can manage the network.

        I love PFSENSE -  Chris has done an awesome job on that project.
          Durn tootin'.  Chris and that other Scott, and Ermal and . . .

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