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How To: Wake on LAN / Wake on WAN
I'll post pictures on the blog as I get it tested out. Here's the basis for the remote: Wiznet's WIZ220IO embedded web remote I/O module. This module gets you eight digital outputs, eight digital inputs, and some analog I/O in one module with its own internal web server for $35. That's a...- R.G.
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- Forum: LAN & WAN Article Discussions
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How To: Wake on LAN / Wake on WAN
You probably have it right, far as I can tell. You understand it better than I do, certainly. That being said, my button pusher seems to be working fine. For the cost of a web-enabled I/O board, I get eight soft buttons, and the limits on how I can reach it on the net and what security...- R.G.
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- Forum: LAN & WAN Article Discussions
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How To: Wake on LAN / Wake on WAN
I pursued WOL pretty heatedly for my data servers and came to the conclusion that it's a technology that's not ready for prime time. It works some times, with some hardware, and in some setups. Sometimes it works great. Sometimes no amount of hacking and learning will make it work. I'm not a...- R.G.
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- Forum: LAN & WAN Article Discussions
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Critique my DIY Build
I'd have to say that I'm at much the same place. Read a lot, think, read a lot, think. One thing I find very helpful is to write down what I'm trying to do, in complete sentences. In my case, the number one item was to ensure that whatever I put into the array was proof against data loss as... -
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Surviving ZLob: Lessons Learned
A little bit of thinking will reveal the result that Microsoft (and other software companies, notably the anti-whatever utilities) and the malware writers have become two parts of a binary parasite. A binary parasite forms when a supplier of a good/legal product and a bad/malicious product come...- R.G.
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- Forum: Security Article Discussions
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Critique my DIY Build
It does depend on your usage. I have a slightly different understanding of the problem with expansion. My understanding is that you cannot expand a Vdev by simply adding a disk. What you can do is to replace one disk at a time disk in the Vdev with a larger disk, and zfs interprets the... -
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Critique my DIY Build
ZFS has some screaming advantages in terms of data reliability. These are: 1. No RAID "write hole". You can set up raidz and get the advantages of not worrying about managing content on a per-disk basis, and not suffer loss of all your data if a failure happens in the middle of a write. 2... -
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Lights-Out Management for Home Servers
I'm putting my servers in modestly out-of-the-way places, so my natural sloth makes me want to manage them remotely for the times they have to be managed. Remote shells are nice, web management is nicer, but sometimes you have to push the buttons. Accordingly, I've been messing with a... -
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Automatic Shutdown of Multiple NAS's
Here's more than I really know. I'm making Opensolaris and EON based NAS units for me. In those, you can, from another machine, send a shutdown command. I bet your NAS units do this as well. But I don't know how for each one. Maybe the manuals...?- R.G.
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- Forum: General NAS Discussion
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Automatic Shutdown of Multiple NAS's
I found some useful hardware. The Openware/ IP Power 9258 is a LAN-managed quad AC power outlet. It has an internal web server to manage its four relay-switched outlets, and also allows for timed action of the outlets. I wrote some things about my intended use for them at my server blog...- R.G.
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- Forum: General NAS Discussion
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Atom board
This is by no means a complete answer to your question, but I have some experiences with WOL. Those are: I've found it tricky as the devil to get to work the way you think it should. Sometimes WOL works. Sometimes it doesn't. Worse yet, the fixes are not always the same. I'm putting my... -
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Small 4 bay (ZFS?) NAS advice please
My recent ZFS Server build I just got my server up and running. I'm sharing a lot of my thinking on my server blog at http://rgkeen.wordpress.com if you're interested in the long version. I'm using an ASUS M3A78-CM, Athlon II X2 240e, 4GB ECC memory, and six 750Gb disks in the array as well...