Patreon Vid: Blowing up Some 3Com Capacitors
Added 2024-02-04 22:36:29 +0000 UTCTaking a look at some late 90s 3Com gear (with varying degrees of success), other pickups, and a brief basement update.
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fantastic news!!
clabretro
2024-02-06 03:19:46 +0000 UTCthanks for joining! we've got plenty of ebay going on here.
clabretro
2024-02-06 03:19:04 +0000 UTCSubscribed because you give me an excuse to keep buying old stuff on ebay.
James Hannigan
2024-02-06 02:39:26 +0000 UTCUgh, stinks when eBay sellers do that. I'm sure you'll be able to get something from either. In the early 2000s, I went from fully Cisco switches for office and data center use to mostly managed HP ProCurve switches at the data center and still mostly Cisco at the office. There was a higher need for managed Gigabit switches at the data center, and Cisco prices were obscene compared to HP, etc. The only gripe I had was HP's menu system on the switches, but you can break out of it and use the IOS-style CLI to get things done. There was some jank with the serial port speeds (I used 8-port PCI serial cards in old Dell OptiPlex pizza boxes running FreeBSD as serial consoles, and they didn't always mesh up well compared to Cisco switches).
Linh Pham
2024-02-05 16:34:40 +0000 UTCFunny you mention ProCurve and Bay, I bought a few switches from both of those lines on eBay and both sellers cancelled on me! I'll eventually get some of that gear though. And yeah I was joking a bit, I've already seen some blown caps on that Cisco serial V.35 PA haha. Those photos pretty much sum it up, exactly what this NetBuilder looks like!
clabretro
2024-02-05 06:22:11 +0000 UTCAlso, I've had stuff blow on Cisco equipment, including a 2600 series router and a dual Fast Ethernet module for a 7206VXR. I took photos of the carnage from the latter, which was causing intermitting drops to a remote location. The moment I slid out the module, I saw a piece of the tantalum cap call on the datacenter floor. Pics on Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WcQCfdo8NenvbQjh9
Linh Pham
2024-02-05 05:51:01 +0000 UTCGotta love the 13W3 connector for the RPS on the 3Com switch. Outside of Cisco and 3Com, I also worked with HP ProCurve, Bay Networks and Extreme Network switches in the past. ProCurve managed switches should be pretty inexpensive as they were also a dime a dozen.
Linh Pham
2024-02-05 05:48:20 +0000 UTCWill be nice if you run BGP between both 7200, internally OSPF and the 7200 summarizing the OSPF routes and injecting to BGP. Also, PBR to allow multiple T1 channels to be used as "multilink" (setup one /24 to go out to the T1/0 and another /24 to another T1/1) and the inbound route, use the BGP to force some traffic to return to one specific T1 channel. Also, you can play with PPP links, do Multilink PPP , etc, use exotic protocols like ATM, X.25 and then MPLS.
Renato Frederick
2024-02-05 03:57:57 +0000 UTCYes! This weekend I received 50 blank DVD, Then I was able to bring to life the Sun Fire T2000. I avoided the network install. But I need to change 2 x 512MB memory modules that are fault. Machine has 8GB (16 x 512MB) but only 4GB are available. I named this weekend "ALOM Adventures weekend".
Renato Frederick
2024-02-05 03:51:26 +0000 UTChaha, I need to get some of those Sun Fires back to work. and tons of stuff to explore with the 7200s, they're capable of so much
clabretro
2024-02-05 01:05:52 +0000 UTCI see your resume.. Previously Sun product specialist Clabretro, is moving to the role of network administrator." How about running BGP on the 7200?
Renato Frederick
2024-02-05 00:39:52 +0000 UTC
