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And here are the winners!
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- We will also officially announce the winners via our weekly newsletter!
Winners Picked by Random Drawing (randomly drawn from the top 20 most voted entries)
#1 https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18392412418067
#2 https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18367820680979
#3 https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18514758246803
Winners Picked by the Firewalla Team
#1: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18364856154643
#2 https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18568231747475
#3 https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/18333572629267/comments/18505161695635
Thank you to everyone who submitted their network rack!
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[You can still submit entries until 23:59pm July 28th Pacific Time]
As we prepare for our release of the Firewalla Rack Mount (pre-registration is open now!), we want to get some inspiration from the community on how to organize hardware better using racks.
It's as simple as snapping a good picture and posting it below as a comment!
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The Prize:
- Two First place winners will each win a Firewalla Gold SE
- Two Second place winners will each win a Firewalla Purple
- Two Third place winners will each win a Firewalla Rack Mount
All winning network racks will be featured in our weekly newsletter!
Timing
- We will accept submissions from now until July 22nd, 2023.
- Voting will end one week after the submission deadline on July 29th, 2023.
- Winners will be announced 96 hours after voting ends.
Entering:
- A Firewalla is NOT required, but submissions with at least one Firewalla box will receive an extra point.
- We encourage all types of setups to apply - show us something cool!
- Optionally, you can add a network diagram clarifying your network topology. We love network diagrams!
- Optionally, if you are doing anything else cool, mention it in your submission.
Voting:
- A login is required for voting.
- Vote for your favorites by clicking the up arrow next to each comment post.
- You can vote for more than one submission.
- Make sure you try to scroll through all of the pages to see everyone’s awesome network setups!
Winner Selection:
- We will select the top 20 entries based on the voting count and subsequently choose the winners through a random draw. The draw will determine 1 First Place winner, 1 Second Place winner, and 1 Third Place winner.
- Additionally, the Firewalla team will independently select their winners, consisting of 1 First Place winner, 1 Second Place winner, and 1 Third Place winner.
Important: Please do not post any sensitive information. Firewalla is not responsible for any submissions in this forum and the content in the posts. Firewalla reserves the right to remove any submissions that are unoriginal or offensive. By entering a submission in the contest, you agree to allow Firewalla INC to use your photos in any future marketing materials. By posting/voting here, you will automatically sign up for the firewalla weekly newsletter.
(We will periodically remove non-rack submissions from the comment section)
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Still a work in progress. I may be getting newer switches from work. I have another 3750 downstairs. I use WIFI to link upstairs to downstairs. The servers are downstairs so when we have outages, we run a cat5e for a temporary backbone. Planning on running 3 Cat6, 2 multi-mode pairs, 1 single mode pair, 1 BIDI solution to built the backbone trunks/link aggregation and two DAC(or one DAC and one AOC) for some of the upstairs interconnects. Lots of technology in place. Definitely using VLAN'ing, split horizon and spanning tree as well. Layer3 switching is the standard here as it's provided a tremendous performance boost. The Cisco and 2 Sophos boxes are currently not powered on or in production, nor are some other routers and gear. I have plans to emulate a lot of things I do at work at home. The shown Firewalla Gold Plus replaced a Blue Plus. Got some SonicWall routers that may go back into production soon as I build up another remote network that can VPN in.
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Made a 2u box with a lot of stuff I needed and also wanted it to be portable. Contains everything for redundancy, power for 60 minutes when I lose power and just needs a single wall outlet and whatever my modem of choice needs. Covers go on the front and back. It has wheels. The screens are for two separate piholes.
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Simple but does the job:
Topology: Modem -> Firewalla -> Eero (bridge mode) -> Switch -> Other hardwired eeros and ethernet ports throughout the house
Internal network has 10G connection from local NAS to desktop computers via a 10G switch (top switch)
Old iMac used for network monitoring as seen below (love that firewalla desktop interface!)
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Definitely need some cleanup.
Comcast business internet modem, with a 5G fail over backup hooked up to a Firewalla Purple. Into my Asus Zen AX wifi. Those main devices are on a UPS. Backbone to 2 floor mesh repeaters and one media closet. Also pictured is my headless ubuntu Alienware home server, running home assistant among others, Fookos Odin F3 3D printer
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Rack mount + Cable Distribution + Diagram for Network Layout. Work in progress as I am changing racks soon and have a Gold+ on the way.
Please mind the paint job, for that was ye 'ol landlord.6" Patch Cables: https://amzn.to/44zvCRD
12" Patch Cables: https://amzn.to/3rgtb8h
Rack: https://amzn.to/3DagoqwWill be moving to rack enclosure soon!
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You guys have some really strong rack game! I've a pretty light load here. Spectrum cable modem is WAN into Firewalla. One Firewalla port is home VLAN, another is tagged for the work SD-WAN device. The media server is segregated, and there's another AP elsewhere in the house also isolated for guest use. I'm glad the Gold will finally have a rack mount option so I can make more room for Vector 2.0 to play during the day (look how sad he is).
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My UniFi setup. Currently an FTTP 1000/50 Internet fed into a USG-Pro, then out to a UniFi 48 Port PoE Switch. Synology NAS for Household storage. Every room in the house has at least 2 x Cat 6a outlets.
Temperature Fan Controller for the extractor fans in the cabinet.
Future plan is to swap the USG-Pro for a UDM-Pro, add Cameras and Doorbell and place everything behind a Firewalla Gold SE (on pre-order). Current max speed of Fibre Internet here is 1GBps so I am just future proofing. The USG-Pro can't do DPI at my line speed so this is turned off.
Rack mount for the Firewalla Gold would work quite nicely. I can just pop out one of the blanking plates
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Like some others, this is a work in progress. I was excited to pull my Sansui GX-5 audio rack out of the basement after 20+ years. Who knew that "19-inch rack" in 1976 would mean the same as "19-inch rack" in 2023?
This is pretty simple compared to most arrangements already posted. I'm using my Firewalla Gold in failover mode and it works like a charm for AT&T fiber with Comcast backup. Also have a Firewalla Blue, though it's not currently inline.
There's a new UPS on order (to rack mount, of course), and at that point I have to up my cable management game. Otherwise, it's too embarrassing for me to even show up.
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Vote..For..Me: If I win I’ll do a free give away for some of my old network gear, I have 1u super micro servers, edge pro router, Cisco firewall, sonic wall firewall, gig network switches, and 4 more of the Dell EMC2 servers you see, I’ll let every one pick what gets to be part of the give away and then put every ones name into a random drawing and ship it free to the location of your choosing.
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Firewalla Gold in Router Mode.
Unifi 8 port 10GB switch to main machine and servers/NAS units
2 x Unifi 24 port switch(1 x POE)
4 x Unifi AP's (Not shown)
Spare 16 port 1GB Netgear switch
2 x TrueNAS Scale Servers
5 x Proxmox servers setup as a cluster setup with High Availability, running multiple VM's and Containers ranging from network security to websites, game servers and multiple domain controllers, 3CX Server and a host of other OS's.
Each Proxmox Node running 2 x Xeon, 256GB RAM and 8 SAS/SSD. Along with 4 x 1GB Ethernet and 1 x 10GB.
A few other NAS boxes as redundant backups and an NVR.
Let's just say that the HomeLab gets a tad bit warm!
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