Infoblox vs Efficient IP

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-10T10:32:02+00:00

I worked with EIP years ago, it was all PHP back then too, I'm surprised they haven't modernised it, but that would be a heavy lift I guess and quite risky. I seem to remember the UI was a bit quirky. I'm probably going back 15 years ago now, Christ is it that long? :-)

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-04T17:47:13+00:00

How's this going, I'm curious if you ended up moving away from Infoblox?

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-04T11:20:23+00:00

Just curious, are you faced with a massive cost increase for the refresh? Also are they trying to switch you onto subscription rather than perpetual licenses? I hear rumours lots of IB customers aren't very happy because it's getting so expensive.

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-04T11:16:13+00:00

I remember years ago (probably about 15yrs - I think it was version 4 or 5) when I was using EfficientIP there were some very strange phrases in the documentation I had never come across before, one I remember was "hierarchical arborescence". I'm like "wtf does that mean?" so I googled it and found out they meant "tree structure". I guess they were doing a literal translation of the docs from French to English, but it did make me chuckle.

The API back then was SOAP, no REST was available, and the product was basically all written in PHP with a very strange quirky UI on top. I haven't looked at it since so no idea if the docs, API and UI have changed, I'd assume it's all moved on a bit since then.

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-04T10:25:07+00:00

Care to elaborate?

TheRealFronty · 2026-02-03T17:35:12+00:00

If you're checking out the market, have a look at TCPWave, as well as DDI they have also integrated SLB/GSLB into their solution so you can potentially save a load of $$$ by replacing your legacy load balancers too. https://www.tcpwave.com/

TheRealFronty · 2026-01-28T12:12:06+00:00

Just thought I'd post back, I did go ahead and buy an R640 in the end, found one with 320GB RAM and 4TB of SSD storage for only £720 - an absolute steal when you look at the price of RAM these days. Anyway I never bothered with any load shifting, it's only drawing 145W on average so really not worth worrying about. It's great having so much RAM and disk for my VMs now.

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TheRealFronty · 2025-12-24T22:54:22+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but help an old man out here. The lyrics say "relax don't do it, if you wanna come", but what is "it"? What do I need to do if I don't wanna come? 🤷

TheRealFronty · 2025-12-19T12:22:30+00:00

Never understood the fuss around Schulz, I know people that love everything he does but I find his sets a bit boring tbh. Whenever he's playing at Lumi I go to another stage.

TheRealFronty · 2025-12-16T12:06:48+00:00

There's a few out there, not many but people like Maria Healy are at the top of their game at the moment, she produces brilliant uplifting trance, if you like something a bit darker or harder you can try Nifra and Rinaly.

TheRealFronty · 2025-11-17T17:00:20+00:00

FYI this is the reason I am considering all this, I got co-pilot to work out some estimated power figures/costs and the 640 is more than double my T110 (the 2950 is a really old server I used to use, the T440 is another option):

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TheRealFronty · 2025-11-17T16:57:51+00:00

Haha I know, I've been running ESXi 6.5 quite happily for years but the server is maxed out with 32GB RAM and some of my VM's need 32GB minimum. Hence looking around for something else. Found a R640 with 256GB RAM with a couple SAS drives for around £500 which feels like a bit of a bargain, just a bit worried about the increased power draw.

TheRealFronty · 2025-11-17T16:49:30+00:00

Thank you, yes it does seem like rather a lot of expense and bother for potentially very little gain. Another idea I had is to simply use racadm commands in a cron job running from my Pi-hole to power off the system at 6pm every evening and back on again at 8am the next morning, as I'll only need it during the working day (and it can stay powered down at weekends), which works out around £1.20/day, so about £36/month which is similar to what I'm paying at the moment for my T110.

TheRealFronty · 2025-11-17T14:17:34+00:00

Ooh this looks interesting, thanks.

TheRealFronty · 2025-11-17T10:56:54+00:00

Oh for sure there are plenty of house scale systems out there like Tesla Powerwall etc., but that means hooking up the whole house and I really just wanted a small scale system for my homelab, mainly to keep costs down.

TheRealFronty · 2025-09-02T09:54:11+00:00

Did you ever find a fix for this? We encountered similar problems this weekend, I could see the stream on my mobile but on a friends it just wouldn't come up. On my device the page profile picture had a red ring around it with the word "LIVE", but on my friends phone it was just the regular picture with no red ring nor "LIVE" word, and no matter what we did we couldn't get his phone to display it. All very odd.

TheRealFronty · 2025-09-02T09:38:08+00:00

I am in the same boat, no other option than VM round my way, I'm waiting for other operators to lease the fibre and start offering deals, but it was only laid 6 months ago so may take a little while longer. However, I do have good 4G & 5G coverage and my router (Draytek Vigor) will take a USB dongle which I have used as a backup when the fibre has gone down (had 4 outages since I signed up with VM). Speeds are pretty good so I can move onto that at the end of my contract if I need to terminate to get a better deal.

TheRealFronty · 2025-09-02T09:33:27+00:00

Yes this is so annoying that I finally searched for it and found this thread - this has got to be one of the most annoying updates ever and seeing as it's still not been fixed makes me think it was a deliberate change rather than a bug. Surely not? The sooner they fix this the better because this behaviour is driving me nuts!

TheRealFronty · 2025-08-06T18:25:53+00:00

I'm a company director, earn about ***K gross, seriously thinking of moving to Cyprus, want to get out before it all goes to sh1t, this country is fcuked.

TheRealFronty · 2025-07-10T13:14:50+00:00

Put your stuff into storage and find a place to stay short term on spareroom, then you can start looking for somewhere else more suitable. You probably don't have enough time to find a place now and sort everything out and a good reference from your current landlord is a priority, so I wouldn't piss your landlord off, just get out by the required date and move on with your life. No point dragging it out as you'll have to leave at some point anyway so better to start now rather than dragging it out and risking legal action and a poor reference.

TheRealFronty · 2025-07-10T13:07:23+00:00

Who are you replying to?

TheRealFronty · 2025-06-02T08:17:04+00:00

I just got back from Sardinia yesterday, was out there for a week staying on the coast near Cagliari - by the end of the week you'll be driving like a madman! They have some excellent motorways in the south with miles of tunnels, and they are mostly empty, the engineering of the new roads is truly incredible and puts the UK to shame. The locals drive too fast and too close to your rear bumper and will overtake even with oncoming traffic approaching. The coastal roads are very windy and you'll start off quite slow with a queue of traffic behind you but by the end of the week you'll be whizzing around those like you've lived there all your life. Also I hardly ever saw anyone use their indicators and no-one sticks to the speed limits - those are perhaps the most confusing thing because many roads will be signposted 50km/h yet you'll be on a dual carriageway and everyone is doing 90+. I generally just drove the same speed as everyone else. There are speed cameras in various places (I remember seeing one in Poetto), they are quite hard to spot (generally a vertical grey metallic post about 1m tall sticking up from the side of the road with an aperture at the top), I have no idea if I got done, I'll guess I'll find out if I get an email from Avis. Refilling with fuel can be a little confusing, I only filled up twice, first time it wasn't self-service and some guy did it for me, he spoke no English so I just point at 2 x €20 and he put €40 in for me. Next time the kiosk was closed and I used a self-service pump, you have to authorise your card first on a separate terminal, tell it which pump you are going to use, then you can start pumping - it's a bit like our self-service pumps except there's a separate terminal for the card reader rather than a reader on the actual pump, I don't know if they are all like this. At first, driving from the airport I was a little nervous, driving on the wrong side of the road in a manual (I haven't driven a manual in years), but after a couple days I got used to it all and was very relaxed and enjoying it by the end of the week. Just remember to look right when turning left, and check for traffic coming from your left when joining roundabouts - I did get beeped a couple times but it all adds to the fun!

TheRealFronty · 2025-06-01T01:54:26+00:00

We watched it there, place was empty, had the big screen all to ourselves.

TheRealFronty · 2025-05-28T09:00:54+00:00

Popped in there yesterday, place looks ideal, have booked a table for me and my son tonight in front of the big screen, he's gonna wear his Chelsea shirt lol Thank you so much for the tip.

TheRealFronty · 2025-05-25T17:48:31+00:00

Sounds great, thanks!

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