johnodon Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 The last piece of HW that I have in my rack other than my unRAID box is a Dell PE1750 that I run pfSense on for my FW/Router needs. I would love to be able to decom this box and move pfSense to a VM but I have one major obstacle... My wife works from home pretty much 5 days a week. With my current setup,iIf I am at work and unRAID dumps, I can still remote into a Windows machine at home and get to the unRAID box via IPMI. However, if this were to happen when using pfSense as a VM, I would not have a route in from outside. Can anyone think of a solution for this? The only thing I can come up with is some kind of failover mechanism that would direct inbound/outbound traffic to a separate router (I have a box full of Linksys/Cisco routers). I don't know if there is some kind of device the I can put in between the routers (Linksys AND unraid external facing nic) and the cable modem that will do this. John Quote Link to comment
johnny121b Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 I use an IP power switch to help maintain control of my systems. Some devices are powered directly via the switched outlets; cable modem, router, switch, etc... Some equipment- like my server & its UPS are, instead, powered directly, but I bought a handful of $2 cell phone chargers (basically tiny switcher power supplies) at GoodWill, and I use those to drive relays which are tied to the reset/power buttons of various things- so I can remotely power up or reset any/everything. The autoping option sounded better than it was. It basically allows you to configure the power strip to automatically run a script if a ping to an IP goes unanswered x# of times. Initially, I had it set to cycle power to my cable modem if it detected the net was gone. My cable service sucked at-the-time, so it was forever rebooting my modem. But for your purposes, I think you could use the feature to automatically monitor an internal IP and act accordingly. Just a thought. This model is actually the successor to the one I have. http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html Quote Link to comment
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