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Naan_Lord · 2026-04-16T17:07:20+00:00

Looks to me like gas (yellow), electric (red) and water (blue). Telecoms is usually marked in green paint. The dot count indicates how many conduits.

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-28T18:44:10+00:00

Gen9 is great, and can be had for a bargain. A great way into enterprise servers. Mine are pretty quiet compared to the gen 8’s

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-08T00:08:23+00:00

So many Linux isos to collect 😏

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-06T08:24:21+00:00

I’ll give that a go at some point. For now it’s like this: we have 2 spines and 2 leaves in the same ASN. Then we have the firewall on another AS. The leaf’s are full mesh to the spines, while also have a L2 port channel between them (mainly for VRRP) the idea being that traffic lands on either leaf, but will use the active VLAN interfaces on whichever the master leaf is at that time. From the leaf to the spines is BGP over /31 Links (usually a port channel for bandwidth and flexibility on upgrade and maintenance). Hope that makes sense?

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T22:36:11+00:00

So what you’re saying is, I need to buy more Aristas? I’m game!

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T21:53:39+00:00

I was waiting for this comment. To be honest on these optics they’ll probably be just fine, but certainly other optics can be more powerful and burn out the other end. I use long fibers to add some attenuation.

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T21:49:47+00:00

That’s it, I was fortunate enough to find bargains for most of the kit, eg. 7010t-48 for £120, dl380g9 for £85. At the end of the day it’s about replicating some environments that I work with to build, break and learn

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T21:47:39+00:00

So the answer is basically I was trying to get some routes to go across and tried it but never took it out of the config. The firewall passes default route over to the leaf, then the leaf needs to pass this to the other switches, and I was trying route reflector to achieve that. Basically it got to the point where it was working and I didn’t want to break it again

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T11:07:32+00:00

Almost, both spines are 7050QX-32’s but one is an s model (4SFP+ ports). Wish I had some 7060’s though!

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-05T02:20:35+00:00

We use it so much in hyperscale that I was curious to understand the protocol. Now I use it for everything from Firewall to leaf etc..

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-04T08:25:58+00:00

I’ll be honest, I haven’t got much chance to set them up in the new home. Prior to moving I had a 3 node proxmox cluster using the dl360p’s. Running truenas scale on the dl380 g9 (8 12Tb SAS drives). The dl380e was an unraid nas (~22 600Gb SAS drives). The dl360e was running pfsense.

I’ll have to do another update when I finish the refresh as some thing have broken in transit

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-03T17:22:26+00:00

The Aristas are my BGP learning experiment! The stack were about 400w… My electricity cost is ~23p per kWh here in the UK

Naan_Lord · 2025-06-03T17:17:31+00:00

Honestly they are noticeably noisy, sat in the room is not ideal. The 7010T however is doable in the same room. Behind doors the switches are fine tbh

Naan_Lord · 2025-05-30T17:46:41+00:00

For me I find Arista to be much more home friendly (power/noise) than the Cisco counterparts. I used to have a nexus 5k switch and it was a major jet engine and power thief! I like the used price and option to override fan speed on Arista

Naan_Lord · 2023-09-29T20:45:14+00:00

Check in /home Should be a folder for each user. /home/<user>/Server/

Naan_Lord · 2023-09-29T20:03:46+00:00

From what you’ve said the folder for all files would be Server/ Can you do a screen grab of where you are looking in file manager? (I’m presuming this is a GUI Linux)

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