DIY Router with Supermicro X10SLH-N6-ST031

[Digilog]

Your NIC ICs are around 45W alone, CPU has 45W DTP, count ~4W per RAM stick DDR3, each fan ~2W, the PSU is not 100% efficient, you have to add storage, everything else on the board on top. You are looking at 60-70W at idle minimum with this hardware.

Anyway, enjoy the DIY build. With your current 200Mbps ISP line though this "old gentleman" will do the all the routing you need like this:

I'll look up how much they draw. Those heat sinks are 5W heat sinks. So I highly doubt that they are more than 2-3W ea. The regulator they used on these were the same ones on the Slot processors, just doubled up and requires a beefy 5V standby so it could handle the inrush current of the regulator. I pulled one of the flex ATX power supplies the 1 U had installed and they are 500W supplies.


I do a lot of file transfers inside the network. Plus since I'm updating, I minus well go the next real step up (10G) instead of making the network somewhat faster (2.5G)
I purchased a 2.5G network card to go into the pcie3 slot so it will talk to the cable modem at 2.5G. Next computers that will be built will be on current slot technology (PCIE5) instead of the outdated technologies they flooded the market place with (PCIE3)

 

[sfx2000]

Here's a good baseline to compare against for capability and cost...

https://www.amazon.com/Qotom-Router-Ethernet-C3758R-Firewall/dp/B0CWDF6FR5?tag=snbforums-20

 

[Tech9]

I do a lot of file transfers inside the network.

You don't need a router for this. The entire network can be run by a switch with virtually any gateway to Internet.

 

[Digilog]

Here's a good baseline to compare against for capability and cost...

https://www.amazon.com/Qotom-Router-Ethernet-C3758R-Firewall/dp/B0CWDF6FR5?tag=snbforums-20

That is the Intel SOC I was looking for (with four 10Gb PHY built in). Thanks. I will have to pick one of those up and compare it to this one. But I will see if Supermicro has one as I rather buy an established brand and American designers.

 

[Digilog]

You don't need a router for this. The entire network can be run by a switch with virtually any gateway to Internet.

That doesn't make sense. IT 10 T error: Problem exist between monitor and keyboard....

 

[degrub]

If all your traffic is local to the lan, a layer 3 switch will handle that.

 

[Tech9]

That doesn't make sense.

For flat single subnet network unmanaged L2 10GbE switch linked to simple router with Gigabit ports will do exactly the same as your DIY build on your 200Mbps ISP line and to your eventual 10GbE NIC clients. For segmented network managed L3 switch can do the same plus inter-VLAN routing and all it needs is a firewall/gateway to Internet. If fast local transfers are the goal - you are reinventing the wheel building a switch.