Moving, Working, Moving

Alright today at work, which by the way has been busy as hell.  Number one we just moved into a new building with a brand new infrastructure, that means from the ground up all new equipment.  A total gig backplane.  Now we have a DS3 connection which runs at 45 Mbps which is flipping fast.  we have around about 15M for data, 10 M Vpn, and the rest for voice and other resources.

We have a brand new phone system which is VoIP and TDM phones.  The biggest introduction however has been the two Pix firewalls.  Although I am not a Cisco guru or anything nor have I ever worked on a Cisco Pix firewall before but I did get a pretty good look at the config files that were used and it seems pretty easy as far as commands.

I couldn't believe the time it took to put all the equipment in the server room.  patching things down, racking servers, plugging switches in and making sure they were in the right VLANs, Looking at the DMZ, hooking up Fiber Cons on the switch, router, and firewall interfaces.  It was a interns dream to be apart of one of the companines biggest moves.

And although it went smoothely there were still some problems that arose as far as routes in the firewall and router that weren't quite right.  VPN tunnels not being set up.  Weird things like a VoIP phone being plugged into two wall jacks causing a loop whne patched in and causing the phone system to crash.  

All in all it was one hell of a weekend.  I finally go to spend a whole 24 hour shift moving and configuring it was cool to be needed by the other tech guys for questions.  It was a great feeling being the only guy that had worked with linux and being able to work (while being monitored very closley) on the IDS.

I had one hell of a weekend at work and this week we will be getting back to normal.