Recent content by acaeti

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    Recommendation for DD-WRT compatible router?

    Buffalo Routers are unavailable in the US now due to a lawsuit. Get a WRT54GL.
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    Setting Up My First HA Network

    You could still use NFS as read only, but have a special apache server to handle all filesystem writes that mounts the SAN as iSCSI or some other read-write mechanism. Presumably your main application activity is reading, with writing happening infrequently (by comparison) so having only a...
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    mdadm or 3ware hardware raid

    Oh yeah, and I second the "move the software volume to any other controller". It can be a pain to have an expensive hardware RAID card go sideways, then have to wait for a replacement.
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    mdadm or 3ware hardware raid

    Growing RAID is a pain in the ass either way. Hardware RAID, you generally need to grow from the card's BIOS and it can take hours (sometimes many hours if you have many disks) to grow a RAID 5, so that can be quite a bit of downtime, and if there is a fault while growing the RAID5, well...
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    My network "dips" often

    I might recommend anything you can flash with dd-wrt (check their web page) if you feel up to it. If not, they're kinda a horse-a-piece unless you want to plunk down bling for a cisco 851w or 871w. But if you are comfortable configuring one of those, you should also be comfortable with a...
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    I still don't get "unreliable" routers

    Me too man (scratch the lightning storm though, my still chugs along). I keep thinking about replacing it with a dd-wrt router, but can never think of a good reason as I am the only user in my residence and I can just turn bittorrent off whenever I have QoS issues. Company I used to work for...
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    need cheap router with QoS help!

    Not to thread hijack, but yeah, major bummer about Buffalo. Good quality equipment, now totally unavailable on these (US) shores.
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    need cheap router with QoS help!

    A Linksys WRT-54GL can do the same dd-wrt + wondershaper QoS that a Buffalo could before they were banned. Make sure it is a WRT-54G*L*, not just a standard WRT-54G.
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    How good is a QoS router?

    Works pretty good in my experience loaded on a Buffalo router. Really any router that can run DD-WRT will be the same.
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    OpenVPN and DD-WRT Internal Network Access

    Perhaps your OpenVPN server is not pushing a route out to your OpenVPN client? If you post your configs for your server and client, along with IP ranges for your already included diagram, perhaps I can help :).
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    NMAP giving inconsistent results

    I guess it could be more an issue with opening so many connections at once, so it wouldn't matter if it was hosts or ports. The thing I had read about scanning >4000 IPs was specific to [ar]pinging netblocks to see if they responded, not full scans. What is the exact command you are running...
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    NMAP giving inconsistent results

    I believe nmap can sometimes open too many connections for your machine to handle. For instance, if you scan large netblocks, say >4000 IP addresses, it will choke. I haven't been able to dig up any evidence of this on a ports basis. What happens if you scan 8000-50000, and run another...
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    VPN Connection

    It depends how extreme you want to get, but this guy has a good tutorial on setting up OpenVPN, which will work for what you want to do but will require you to setup a junker pc with linux and use it as your router on your network: http://judebert.com/wasted_youth/permalink/GameVPN.html
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    Which PCI Internet Adapter?

    To be honest, almost anything will do. PCI NICs are pretty much commodity these days. Of course the gold standard is still Intel, and Gigabit Intel NICs are pretty cheap (circa $30 for a PWLA8391GT): http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833106121
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    IP Cop, smoothwall? do they reduce latency?

    That said, a router running ipcop or smoothwall may work better than a garbage linksys router handling 15pcs of traffic. Linksys-type routers lock up sometimes when you run a lot of bittorrent connections through them, for example.