[163153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear NANOG Gods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue May 21 15:41:02 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <80497153-EEFF-4662-A730-49F0978346D4@icann.org>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:40 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Since some people were interested (on- and off-list), see below.
On 2013-05-21, at 15:32, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@icann.org> wrote:
> hey there
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> we have a case from http://www.skbcases.com 20U 20"=20
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> they are really reliable (been using them since 6 years, shipped =
meeting equipment for ICANN before and also servers as joe mentioned =
below
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> let me know how we can help
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> mehmet
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> On May 21, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Joe Abley <joe.abley@icann.org> wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> Do you remember where you bought those flight cases we used to ship =
Dell 1Us around the place?
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>> People on NANOG want to know :-)
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>> Joe
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: Jason Faraone <JFaraone@paulo.com>
>>> Subject: RE: Dear NANOG Gods
>>> Date: 21 May 2013 15:10:32 EDT
>>> To: 'Joe Abley' <jabley@hopcount.ca>, Warren Bailey =
<wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
>>> Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>>> Would you happen to have a link for a flight case that would fit a =
1-2u server? I was in the same situation a few days ago and ran the =
risky proposition of building my own box.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca]=20
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:56 PM
>>> To: Warren Bailey
>>> Cc: NANOG list
>>> Subject: Re: Dear NANOG Gods
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>>> Hi Warren,
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>>> On 2013-05-21, at 14:48, Warren Bailey =
<wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
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>>>> I need to ship some Dell servers, and my google skills have gotten =
me nowhere. Is there a decent place to find standard server size =
shipping boxes? Located in Socal if anyone has an extra or two.. ;)
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>>> The last time I had to ship a box myself I went to the local UPS =
Canada office, since they evidently will pack and ship rather than just =
ship.
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>>> The last time we had to ship a number of (Dell, actually) boxes from =
ICANN in LA we bought some flight cases that we could rack the servers =
into. Our thought was to go for reusable, rather than one-off (and we =
had doubts about the state of the boxes upon arrival if they weren't =
securely packed; a flight case with 19" rails inside seemed like a good =
bet).
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>>> We found the flight cases with only minimal googling, but if you're =
having trouble Mehmet could no doubt hook you up.
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>>> And if you're close to El Segundo and we can get the flight case =
back when you're done, you could probably just borrow ours :-)
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>>> Joe
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