Soldato
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- 1 Sep 2005
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Has anyone here built their own router and/or switch? My Netgear DG834G seems to be starting to pack up. The network sockets will only run at 10Mbps without dropping frames left right and centre. So I have had to combine 2 Prosafe switches and the router to make it all run stable but it does mean a 10Mbps bottleneck for the wireless side of my network.
Ideally I would want any new router or switch to be rack mountable which has made me think about the idea of building my own. Ideally I would want a 1 or 2U rackmount chassis set up to run with low power and very low noise. Kit it out with 12-16 Nics, 1-2 ADSL2 modems, Wireless AP and run it on some sort of Linux router distro.
So has anyone done this or have any thoughts or suggestions for parts?
Ideally I would want any new router or switch to be rack mountable which has made me think about the idea of building my own. Ideally I would want a 1 or 2U rackmount chassis set up to run with low power and very low noise. Kit it out with 12-16 Nics, 1-2 ADSL2 modems, Wireless AP and run it on some sort of Linux router distro.
So has anyone done this or have any thoughts or suggestions for parts?