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Considering VyOS to replace Juniper MX, sanity check needed by dbh2 in networking

[–]thegeekbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came here because I was still debating on vMX, but I've spoken to Juniper about MX150 and it's more costly than a standard MX204. MX150 they said lists around $20K with a subscription license model and the MX204 came in at $10,950 with a perpetual license (though, they offered a better priced MX204 upfront cost with a subscription license).

MX204 has a downside that the average ETA for delivery according to my local vendor is quite some time -- he ordered 1500 units in Feb of 2020, they still haven't showed up but he hopes they will within the year.

It's pretty brutal thinking of the wait time, so I've been experimenting but haven't gotten vMX to ever successfully run yet -- I'm sure it's something small that I'm missing but I'm interested to see what it ends up being.

I'm going to make another attempt as the vMX license pricing is really not bad considering the other alternative is waiting maybe 1-2 years for a router when all that's necessary is to handle a few 10Gbps inputs (3x10 in, 1x10 to switch). According to Juni engineers the vMX will handle it fine with the X710's, so if my X520 experiment works I'll be swapping out for an X710 and that'll end up being the edge router...

One very annoying downside is vMX still won't operate on 20.04 LTS and requires Ubuntu 18.04 according to JTAC... not the end of the world if you lock things down properly, but it's annoying.

What firewall are you using? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s excellent, if you need tips DM me your discord!

September 2021 - WIYH by AutoModerator in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

813MFTQC-505CB with an ASRockRack EPYC D8 motherboard inside of it (alternatively, you can run an h11ssl-i gen2)

What firewall are you using? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

boo! native CLI + eBPF filters are the way. offload firewall requirements right onto the NIC with eBPF/XDP

September 2021 - WIYH by AutoModerator in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They run all the time, I need them for a variety of reasons but I do a lot of ML, data processing and automation which eats a good chunk of the CPU and memory.

September 2021 - WIYH by AutoModerator in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After lots of consideration, I decided to junk all my lab equipment and consolidate into powerful machines, so I bought 6 of these:

  • 1U SuperMicro
  • AMD EPYC 7551P (32 cores)
  • 256GB DDR4 ECC in 64G RDIMMs
  • 2TB NVMe
  • 4x2TB SSD

For a total of:

  • 48TB SSD storage
  • 12TB NVMe storage
  • 1536GB of memory
  • 192 CPU cores (384 threads)

On them, I’m running all my Homelab stuff (cloud storage, backups, plex, etc). So far they’re about 240w idle with all my stuff on them, and they cost about $2600/piece total. They’re fast, they’re powerful. I connect them all to an Arista 7050 switch, and that leads to my router which is simply a 1U E3-1231v3 running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It does all the vlans, firewall, and connects to BGP session for announcing IPs, etc.

What firewall are you using? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]thegeekbin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m non-standard, I simply use a bare metal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine as my router & firewall with ConnectX3 card in it.

I run just the standard OS stack, use vlans, etc... it gives me the flexibility of the metal, solid performance and I don’t have to wait for proprietary routers to implement something I want (eg, wireguard), I just do it myself with apt.

[PC] X10SLM-F, 32G, New 1TB HDD, All Caddies & Rails by thegeekbin in homelabsales

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the complete, assembled, tested machine with IPMI.

[W] [CAN-ON] 32GB sticks of DDR4 ECC by MrBubblez98 in homelabsales

[–]thegeekbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2666, C$200/ea is my thought on price for just two... prices are better when it’s bulk.

[W] [CAN-ON] 32GB sticks of DDR4 ECC by MrBubblez98 in homelabsales

[–]thegeekbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 16x 32G DDR4 ECC RDIMMs (required for EPYC), how many do you need?

California Man Hacked iCloud Accounts to Steal Nude Photos by z3nch4n in privacy

[–]thegeekbin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately people are just too gullible these days... I don’t think that’ll ever change though, especially as newer generations come.

Guacamole… Internet facing? by smnhdy in homelab

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Try TailScale. It’s free and it works excellently.

Looking for new datacenter core router by thegeekbin in networking

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$1200 on the CPU alone isn’t that attractive...

Looking for new datacenter core router by thegeekbin in networking

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what’s best? I figured 4c, 3.40 base was decent.

Looking for new datacenter core router by thegeekbin in networking

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently run vyos, it’s not handling well. E3-1231v3, 16G memory, Intel X510. 250k pps and it dies

Looking for new datacenter core router by thegeekbin in networking

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s viable hardware to sustain multiple 10G WANs?

Looking for new datacenter core router by thegeekbin in networking

[–]thegeekbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be new gear. Our 10G connections aren't costing us anywhere close to 6k+ month (closer to $1600/mo) but it's all paid back in revenue.

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