Davit2005

I bought a 305m box of CAT6 LS0H costing about £70 plus about £40 for a good connectix CAT6 24 patch panel for home 2 months ago. If you are doing a build or refurb and want to put the cables in the wall I'd suggest a minimum of CAT6 cable. 2 outlets per wall box, at least 4 where you are planning to have AV equipment.

You may need to check the OS compatibility when it comes to Server OS https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/support/articles/000005628/mini-pcs.html . As for 24/7 running I have actually run a NUC for CCTV at home for well over a year now and it is on 24/7. The only issue I have had is with the Internal HDD that I used for CCTV storage failing, this was a WD NAS 1TB 2.5" drive. I have mine running Windows 10. I had it running ESXi to start with and managed to get a second USB NIC working but it wasn't very stable. Hyper-V support is pretty bad.

You have the same auto completes and shortened commands in HP as you do in cisco. Some HP switches you can do things like show run vlan [VLAN_ID] and this will give you all the info about a specific vlan. You can also pipe various commands. The link below although for the comparison of Procurve/Comware/Cisco cli commands has some use full cli commands to get you started. https://h17007.www1.hpe.com/docs/interoperability/Cisco/HP-Networking-and-Cisco-CLI-Reference-Guide_June_10_WW_Eng_ltr.pdf

+1 You need to take official advice about this and the law.

What sort of profiles do you use Local, Roaming, Mandatory.

This needs to be opt in, so much other tech and software gives you the option at setup/install time rather than hiding it away in the settings.

For personal use I have a synology which I have backing up most important stuff daily to AWS, the AWS has Encrytion which is easy to set as default compared to the Azure storage I used to back up to. I did setup a CentOS based file share which backed up to AWS a few years ago so it is possible there should be a way to do this for Windows some how.

If you have layer 3 switches then you could setup different vlans for BOYD but I'd personally use a firewall and put the BOYD gateway there and then you will have easier control over the traffic you may want to allow to your internal network. Your Firewall or WiFi solution may give you option for captive portal where users could download a certificate for BOYD devices, this is how I did this before.

You do not need the USG or Unifi Switches. Management is a whole lot easier if you do but Unifi misses a whole load of Enterprise features and may not suit bigger organisations needing resiliency etc.

MS Office ADMX settings is defo on the list for me.

RBR wasn't that PS2 , I'd gotten into V-Rally 2 by then, remember staying up one xmas night with a friend and completing from start to finish taking turns and getting the 405 T16 rally car as a prize. I'm actually waiting on a BBC Micro model B to come out in this format, now that I would queue out of the shop for, it was the computers we had in my secondary school back in 1980's.

If Colin McRae Rally, TOCA and Gran Turismo were in there I'd of probably bought on those alone.

Welcome Dan

Anyone, I'm considering installing the Full fat OpenVPN, the Pi has 2GB so memory wise should be able to cope with a max of 2 concurrent connections which is the limit of the free version anyway.

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As @Jcx500 pointed out You will need to setup a default static route on the 2930f stack pointing to the Smoothwall this should be the gateway everything else was pointed to. And probably a static route from the smoothwall to tell it where the new vlans are been routed i.e. on the 2930f switch. I have done the exact same thng at home. Set up the VSF stack, when doing this with 2 switches I have found the best way is to use ports on each switch in the same link (i.e. member 1 link 1 1/25,1/26 and member 2 link 2/25,2/26) otherwise I've found there will be a huge delay in second link coming up and even a reboot of the if one link was disconnected. It also does not seem to load balalance the traffic between both the ports if they are setup with 2 links. Only plug one of the cables in one of the VSF ports on each switch. Once the second switch has rebooted and joined the VSF domain then configure the second port on the second switch to be on the same link 1 and connect the second cable. You should have something like this in your running config: vsf enable domain 1 member 1 type "[sWITCH MODEL]" mac-address [sWITCH MAC ADDRESS] priority 200 link 1 1/25,1/26 # dependong on the ports you have configured link 1 name "I-Link1_1" exit member 2 type "[sWITCH MODEL]" mac-address [sWITCH MAC ADDRESS] priority 128 link 1 2/25,2/26 # dependong on the ports you have configured link 1 name "I-Link2_1" exit exit Set the 2930f stack to do routing i.e. ip routing Set up a different network between the 2930f and the Smoothwall this could be a on tagged sub interface on the smoothwall or a spare interface if practical and you have the capacity. Create the vlans on the 2930f giving each one a different subnet On each vlan create a ip helper-address this should point to your DHCP server. If this is on a vlan routed on the same switch then all you need do is setup the different subnets as DHCP ranges on the DHCP server and that shoukd work. If the DHCP server has it's gateway routed elsewhere you may need some extra config. You will need to setup a default static route on the 2930f stack pointing to the Smoothwall IP address that acts as the next hop. And probably a static route from the smoothwall to tell it where the new vlans are been routed i.e. on the 2930f stack. You may also need to add the new vlans to firewall rules and NAT rules for them to be able to talk to the Internet where necessary. It should be not much more difficult as this. Once this has been done you can then configure an LACP trunk link between the 1920 and the VSF stack if you do lt create the LACP link and use 2 connections for resilience you will end up with a spanning tree loop, not good. One additional thing you will need to do is configure a voice vlan on the edge switches, the DHCP range for the VOIP phones may need to have dhcp options such as tftp etc. These may already be setup for the existing range. On the 1920 I beleive you can setup the ports to autoconfigure for VOIP phones. Or alternatively do this manaully and just configure a voice vlan.

My linux skills are not great. I'va managed to set everything up and have access from my phone on 4G to the PiVPN and am given an IP address etc. I'm having great difficulty accessing anything on the LAN side. The client gets the 10.8.0.1 address. The eth0 interface on the Pi is on 172.21.128.193 its gateway is 172.21.128.1 which is on the firewall but I need to be able to get on other subnets. I can access IP addresses on the 172.21.128.0/24 network whilst on the VPN ok. I'm guessing I need routes but don't know where I should put these. I've heard the term push but again clueless as where to put this config. I can handle the firewall side no problem.

How many hosts have you got and what connectivity options i.e. FibreChannel, iSCSI or only DAS i.e. SAS connections. What physical hosts are you running and what HyperVisor. For instance if you had FibreChannel, FCoE, iSCSI you could have this split from 2 different NICs on the hosts, 2 different Switches and 2 different controllers this would give you some resilience in case of single point of failure.

Oh My, smple ESC key, I've been having fun issue with this for over a year

I'd be trying a Raspberry Pi 4 case . Should be small enough to fit on the table but maybe a bit advanced for first print.

Some real nice points there.

My 2GB version got delivered today, should be fine for what I need it for but for the extra £10-12 maybe I should of waited.

DNS Scavenging? https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfe/2011/06/03/how-dns-scavenging-and-the-dhcp-lease-duration-relate/

I never buy spinning disks for boot drives. They are either M.2 or SATA SSD. My Windows 10 home PC has a SSD for boot, a 1TB HDD drive for mass/slow storage and 2 SSD's for Video work. Booting and working with Apps is so quick.

Have you got Duplex mismatch on the ports, This can cause the link to fail.