I don't even care what the subject of this video was. It was so well presented, with so much clarity and insight. Thank you for putting this out there. I'm kidding, I really do care about high speed networking.

Just published part 3 of 10Gb Home Network - Build A Switch. In this video we wrap the 10Gb Home Network series with a really fun project to build a very powerful and usable home brew 10Gb network switch. All the magic is embedded in the network operating system. I invested easily over 100 hours of designing, building, troubleshooting, and testing in this project (just part 3) so I stand by the results. Now you can build one using my recipe. I hope you enjoy the end result!

@chrismoore9997

8 жыл бұрын

Speaking of the "recipe", would you put up a hardware list? What system board and network cards did you use?

@geogmz8277

8 жыл бұрын

Check P1 and P2 of the series.

@chrismoore9997

8 жыл бұрын

I watched those and I don't remember any mention of the system board that he used in the switch. After all, this is the video that covers the switch.

@geogmz8277

8 жыл бұрын

Oh you're right my bad, I thought you were talking about the NIC's I misinterpreted what you asked.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, I just updated the video details fold. Tons of stuff for your browsing pleasure!

Watching this in 2023 and it's so useful. Thank you so much for uploading this!!

Really great series. Well made! Really liked the way you explained everything and why you made certain choices. Vyos really reminds me of working on Juniper network gear. Thanks!

I wanted to thank you for your awesome 10Gb series, i was able to make my own 10GBe switch for my unraid server using all 3 of your videos.

@Itechstorm

5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your build! Hopefully you had fun and learned a few things along the way.

The most informative video I have ever seen brother, you rocked it

OMG I LOVE YOU! Am having a new home built, and decided that I wanted to upgrade to 10GigE and start putting everything on NAS. My god is this helpful!

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Jennifer Royal awesome!! Checkout my other video for the network closet setup. I did the all my cable runs after my new home was framed. I'd recommend no less than Cat6 cable. If you can afford Cat7 that is a better option for future proofing. I purchased a 500 foot spool of bulk media cable which was a dream to run. 2x Cat5e and 2x RG6 bundled into a single cable. Then faceplates are easy. 2x2 faceplate with 4 keystone jacks. One of my favorite upgrades to my house.

Thank you so much for this excellent series ! I am learning a lot and can't wait to put it into practice.

I want more videos like this, they're the best!

Just the info i was looking for.. subbed 👍

Awsome 10G guide series. I am currently upgrading my home-labs on 10G with new FreeNAS as my VM storage. I was debating what to about the 10G switch since they are sooo expense - VyOS looks like its gonna do great. Ubiquity runs a fork of Vayata on their Edge Switches and Routers and they run superb. Good job and thanks for all the info provided in the description!

Awesome content, awesome presentation. Thx for everything!

You need to upload more regularly!! Very enjoyable. You inspired me to start a project like this as a VM on my storage/VM server.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Narwaro Awesome! Thanks for the kudos. I completely agree with you about needing to upload more regularly. I've been trying to think of ways to reduce the time it takes to make a video. On top of that I'm a one man operation and I have a full-time job. So it's extremely difficult to knock videos out on a routine basis, as this could be a full time job easily. I'm going to figure something out and strike a balance. That's my goal. Good luck with your project. That's how great ideas are born!

@Narwaro

7 жыл бұрын

I know how that is like, unfortunately. Only put the amount of time in to KZread that you can afford! (I have actually been into networking quite a lot recently because Im redoing my server room and all my cables with fibre and CAT7, and I am also one of the first ones to get fibre at work, fk yeah)

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Narwaro good times!! It is always fun to be involved with those projects. So much to learn! So little time.

@Narwaro

7 жыл бұрын

As a physicist and programmer I have the honour to be allowed to play around with hardware and call it 'work' :'D

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Narwaro good excuses are priceless!

Amazing! I watched all your 10Gb videos! Thank you!

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Wei Ming Liang you are very welcome. Thank you for the comment.

I was waiting for this since P2 release, and put the plans to buy a 10g switch on hold until i see what comes in P3.. Certainly i wasn't disappointed, great effort and very organized and informative video. i will give it a try since i already purchased 4 Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards that i will use in a similar build. I would like to thank you for the dedicated effort and wish that you will keep posting such quality materials when ever it becomes available. Regards,

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Essam Mohsin thanks for your kind words. I'm glad I could help with your decision. One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that most 10Gb switches are very noisy. That can cause problems for a lot of people. One more thing to consider I guess. Good luck with the build. I had a lot of fun with this project, and I'm glad I could share in a meaningful way.

I tried building a DIY 10gb Network Switch a year ago, and everywhere I went people said it wouldn't work. I got it working in a dell PowerEdge 2950 but it would only do like 500MB in one card and out another. I ended up buying a 10gb switch (crazy expensive). Glad you figured it out. Now you have to build a raid0 fileserver with ssd's. I get 2000MB read and write on mine. Loading games over 10Gb is faster than my 2 ssd raid0 on my gaming machine because over the network the game loads straight into RAM. =)

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Levi Blaney that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing Levi. Now that the 10Gb infrastructure is in place, I'm kicking around a few ideas on how to leverage it with fast storage in a fun way. Out of curiosity, what OS are you using for your RAID0 setup?

@zaggery

7 жыл бұрын

iTechStorm Try not to laugh... I'm using windows 10. This is because I built the "Ultimate" HTPC. It's used as a media center, and to game in the living room and to be my 10Gb file server. I was going to use my PE2950 but it's just not the right setup for a 10Gb file server. A Enterprise Server with PCIx 3.0 is extremely expensive but a consumer motherboard with two 16x and one 8x is only $200 or so. With the R9 290, the H700 raid card and the Melanox 10gb NIC I needed all the fast slots I could get. I still have a server cabinet full of servers for VM's and stuff, and the PE2950 has 12TB's raid10 for backups and VM's.

@zaggery

7 жыл бұрын

iTechStorm Pictures from a year ago when I first started, everything is much different today. goo.gl/photos/g97xo2vgwGdDxxYQ8 edit: correct link

@zaggery

7 жыл бұрын

iTechStorm I would really like to see you make a RAM disk on two different machines and copy a file like a 4gb or 2gb movie back and fourth. I really don't think the switch you built will hold up. Mine couldn't in my tests. The issue is SMB has more overhead then just raw IP packets. This tends to translate into a much greater latency when going through the PCI bus, this causes throttling and lower throughput. With all the testing I did. I was only able to get 600-750Mb's. Still much better then 125MB's though. I bought a 10Gb switch because I already had invested in the Raid0 SSD file server.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

Lol. Love the picture with the cat! Cats power the internet you know...

That was awesome! Really learned a-lot! Thank you for this well detailed video!

This is so helpful! Thank you very much for the clear instructions!

Freaking amazing build. Thank you for going into such great detail.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed it! I'm a big fan of detail myself...

That bios is intense with the specialized payload settings and all the other cool server stuff. Wish mine was like that.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+mrlithium69 some day your bios will grow up to be big and strong... some day

Amazing, I'm building this ASAP. Thanks

THANK YOU for all that you put into these. Very good detail 👍🏼👍🏼

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Donald Coleman thanks for the feedback! Glad you are enjoying the content. I wouldn't put so much effort into my videos if I didn't believe they were going to resonate with people.

great video! keep up the good work

This Video makes me so hyped for also committing a build :D

@joebonsaipoland

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Wolf 5 months later did you build it? I just converted a legacy Citrix Netscaler in a 10Gb switch

GREAT SERIES. WELL DONE

Awesome idea, I was actually toying with it myself but was thinking of RouterOS from Mikrotik, since I'm more of a Mikrotik fan. I've used Ubiquiti in the past though and they are coming with some awesome products! Their new EdgeSwitch 16 XG would be a competitor (around 600$) for anyone who is trying to build this from scratch I think. But if you have some of the parts already (like an older PC as you mentioned) this is really a killer way to build a cheap 10Gbit switch! The video and tutorial is very clear, great work! :D

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+InterTech ya I agree the Ubiquiti product line is really promising. I think we are going to see some really good products roll out their doors.

Awesome. i see Fiber optic cables and scsi Data cards awesome

This was a good guide, thank you for making this!

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Kad1nat it was my pleasure. I'm glad everyone is enjoying it so much.

Very well done. Looks like you put a lot of tie into the video. Thankyou

@tomar5e115

8 жыл бұрын

*time*

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

This was a project I truly believed in, and I wanted it to reflect in my work. I easily invested over 100 hours of designing, building, troubleshooting, and testing. I truly appreciate that everyone is enjoying it! Thanks for the feedback.

@mrakjunior

7 жыл бұрын

iTechStorm Absolutely!

Thanks man. Great job on the video. I really love it.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

I really enjoy the video thanks!

This guy has his shit together. Excellent video series!

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+thegreatga lol, thanks! I try...

Until seeing this video, I would never have thought of this as an option. I have two "segments" in my home network. My entertainment room which has mine and my wife's desktops plus our entertainment center. And out in our living room is our router along with the NAS and a virtualization system. I want to connect the entertainment room to the router using 10Gb or faster. And I'd been trying to find hardware to give me what I want, but now that I've seen this video, I know how to proceed. And with this option I can start small with getting the wide bandwidth (10Gb or better) set up first and then add everything else, likely including putting 10Gb Ethernet cards in mine and my wife's systems. I've seen switches that have Gigabit connections with a faster uplink (typically SFP) but that always seemed a little limiting since each client would be limited to only Gigabit. This idea of a custom switch, though, as you said, allows you to meet specific requirements, and change things as the requirements change. I definitely have more research to do regarding the available options. I've considered 10GbE and Fibre Channel for the link between the living room and the entertainment room depending on what I can find for what price. And I still plan to do 10GbE in the NAS -- which will likely be the first move since it's backward compatible to GbE. But overall it means two switches: one for the entertainment room to the living room, then another main switch in the living room to include the router (provided by my ISP, so I can't change it out or I would with a pfSense box). Out of curiosity, have you tried combining wireless into your custom switch using a USB or PCI-Express Wi-Fi adapter? If so, how easy was that to set up?

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+brandishwar excellent! I'm happy to hear you are getting a plan together for your 10Gb upgrade. I love hearing about different configurations and how they are used. Unfortunately I have not tried connecting a wifi device to the switch yet. But I'm certain I remember seeing wifi functionality built into VyOS, so I would say your chances are pretty good. If you get a chance to test it out before I do, make sure you post back with an update! I would love to know how it works out.

Wow. Thank you. So much information.

Loved the video series on this topic....

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

I had fun with the series myself. I'm glad you enjoyed it too!

Great series! Thank you

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed making the series. Thanks for the comment!

Great video!

Thanks for Your videos! :)

Awesome video series! Thank you

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+davester32 thanks! Hopefully you learned something useful.

Nice work!

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+VyOS thanks! But I would be remiss if I didn't thank you guys for the amazing job you've done with VyOS!!! Excited for when version 1.2 drops.

awesome stuff, thanks for the video.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Thohan79 tech is fun, it should be shared

Brilliant video! Thanks! :)

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Emma Stott you bet Emma. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for this!!!

THAN FOR VIDEO.

I subscribed to the channel so I would get notified when this went up. Thank you so much for your effort on this! Great Work! The illustration looks like a SupperMicro system board and you said that you would have more information below, but I don't see any additional info.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

I just posted a ton of info to the video description. Check it out! You are correct though, SuperMicro board.

Hiiii, this is honestly the best tutorial I've ever seen. such a comprehensive and detailed video. thank you sooo much. however, I'm sad that this video was 6 years ago, hopefully you are doing well and nothing happened.

Great job on the video! I DON'T think you sound like a text-to-speech engine. LOL I definitely like the options you are presenting here. I like the fact that the home builder or average techie can stick it to the companies which, up until recently, held the monopoly on this kind of networking.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Carballo maybe I'll include a text to speech segment in the next video, lol. Well 10Gb is certainly overdue for the power-user segment, especially when you look at what has been going on with data transfer rates internal to PC/game systems.

I like it!

Great video! Thanks! Wondering why you didn’t virtualize the Vyos install via hypervisor. This way your system is not just dedicated for 10g switching but can be used for other purposes. Finally, your rational for doing a custom 10g switch was to save money on enterprise 10g switch but then you end up dedicating your whole system (super micro mb, 4x10g nics etc) for switching. May be I missed something or just misunderstood your part 3 video. Regardless, the idea & the presentation is great & useful. Thanks again.

Thats actually an idea I had too when 've seen that you can get dual sfp+ fro just 25€ each

i really want you to do another one of these just for testing see if there is any better software or see if it will even really work

Awesome

Great video. I wish you would have included some video / pictures of the actual build though!

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+yggdrasil viking there really wasn't much to see. Just network cards stacked next to each other, but I did show that in the video. I wanted to keep the video focused and on track.

Awesome video dude!

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+JBloomfield1990 excellent! I try to keep my viewers happy...

You are a god among us

Amazing series. Thank you. Now to go earn some money for my new setup.

@kipuchino

7 жыл бұрын

If I had this setup. Could I have my Steam library on my server and run the games from there? Seeing as the speed is so great?

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Luke Eaton that's great to hear you found the series so useful. Thanks for the feedback!

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Luke Eaton I couldn't say for certain. Sounds like a good project for you to test in concept though!

@kipuchino

7 жыл бұрын

;) Will definitely do that. Maybe around 6 months till I can complete it. I will report back and let you know.

@StephenSmith304

7 жыл бұрын

I've been using a steam library over SMB on 1G network from FreeNAS - most games are fine and only certain ones hang for 20 seconds when loading. I imagine you'd have no problem using 10G network.

Awesome video

Aand now I'm going to try out Vyos. I like that CLI menu.

At about 9:22 I noticed it's a version of OpenBSD which is really good from what I've heard about it

awsome. man. sweet!

Hi folks great video. After watched this video I have made a VYOS switch with my tiny HP T5740 PC. I have installed one dual port intel 10G fiber card. I have connected it by fiber. Can you tell me how how to see optical power reading on this ?

Great video! I just picked up a quanta 25 port 10gb switch off ebay for like $350. Works great!

@ayalaamaury

8 жыл бұрын

what? i paid 5,000 for mine

@tomwhite9128

8 жыл бұрын

The Quanta LB6M's are plentiful on ebay for around $350-$400!

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas White I've heard you can find a cheaper Quanta at times. But aren't those switches noisy? I actually forgot to mention this switch build is quiet in comparison.

@tomwhite9128

8 жыл бұрын

iTechStorm They can be pretty noisy. Mine isn't horrible but I have heard some that are like jets. I wish mine was more quite but that's something I can get over for the price.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas White good to know, thanks.

Thanks. Nice video and excellent understandable diction and pronunciation. Why don't you use just bridge tools in some centos or like?

It's funny how 4 years later that server hardware he used in the video is probably more expensive than buying a Ubiquity XG 16 switch. It is not as flexible for sure, but more compact and damn that nice UI :D

Truth. . Low mem usage for many years

awesome!

Really good and detailed information. It'll be quite a jump from my Edgerouter X attempting this. I'm guessing combining this with a SG-2220 outbound to a modem is ideal. I hope you update the NAS/SAN build, as a new one can exploit this network (plus Xeon D and Atom integrated boards make the builds much less complicated).

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Quick! I have an Edgerouter X too, and you'll be pleased to know they pretty much ran with Vyatta-Core and forked a slightly different direction from VyOS. I actually enjoy using VyOS a lot more since it's easier to use from the command line with features like abbreviated commands. Anyway, that's a really good question about the SG-2220, since I haven't seen where anyone else has tested it with VyOS. It probably works great if it's using standard chip sets. And on the topic of the NAS/SAN build, I agree the Xeon/MB/Mem should work quite nicely with a 10Gb connection XD

@tomwhite9128

8 жыл бұрын

Just wait for the new 10Gb EdgeRouter!

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas White sounds interesting

Can you make a performance comparison between vyos and pfsense?

With that motherboard, memory, NICs combination and considering the power draw, you can buy a 16 port 10g netgear switch. I've seen them on ebay for $1300.00. I use VYOS extensively in our company of 300+ servers, and it is rock solid.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+jkljkljkljkljkljkl I don't disagree with what you said. But at the same time I never said you had to use the same hardware as I did. I mention in the series you should size your hardware to your own requirements. Some people could even use hardware they have sitting around. At the end of the day, it's just an alternative to typical vendor solutions. That's all.

Insta-subbed tks for this

One issue. Putting together this hardware does approch the cost of purchasing a Netgear 8 or 12 port 10Gbe Switch... Tho it does have more versatility in terms of using copper/fiber plus 40Gbe cards could also be used I suppose..

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Although I want to stress the versatility is also in using different combinations of hardware (cheaper). I never stressed the use of these particular components in the video. My point was, you get what you pay for. Thanks for the feedback!

@logicprohacks

6 жыл бұрын

Netgear sucks! I would never buy a Netgear for home, heck even if someone gave me a brand new 10GB Netgear, I would sell it on eBay and use the cash to buy the parts to make the switch in this video. Also, you get the feature of layer 3 in the switch build here, which is very helpful if you have a wifi network and you want to route to a DMZ. For what it's worth if you were to buy a cisco or brocade version of what he is building here; go ahead and take out your checkbook and write out something close to 5K and then we can talk cost and if this build is worth it.

@denshi-oji494

6 жыл бұрын

The 10Gb hardware has also dropped quite a bit since he made these videos. Since your comment, they have even dropped further! It is now cheap enough for the average consumer to consider buying 10Gb Ethernet for normal home use! (May 2018)

@Alan.livingston

6 жыл бұрын

LogicProHacks recently had a data centre job that involved managed services for some of the customers. Interspersed amongst them were a few who had chosen Netgear prosafe 10g switches for the storage network of their virtualisation setups. At first I was mortified as I’d previously had less than stellar experiences with people using Netgear equipment in production. In the end though we had almost no issues with them at all. The key with them seems to be the same as when you come across Mikrotiks, Ubiquiti, and other lower tier gear, keep them patched and keep the config simple. I won’t vouch for any other of Netgear’s product line, but the 10g prosafes were good enough for a home or soho deployment. The actual biggest pain in the arse with them is they are web managed only so you are reduced to clicking stuff in a GUI like some sort of chump.

@studioviper3016

5 жыл бұрын

@@denshi-oji494 do you have any examples of affordable 10gbe Ethernet switches with more than 2 X 10gbe ports?

Hey techstorm, I really like your videos and especially this one! I have a Dell t710, and I was wondering what virtualization platform would be the best for running pfsense and vyos (and freenas and Linux). I am running proxmox right now. Can pfsense and vyos even work together? I would guess they could, but I could be wrong. Thanks!

@Itechstorm

4 жыл бұрын

I’m prefer Xen myself as a hypervisor, but if you are happy with Proxmox then stick with that. You should be able run all the appliances you mentioned just fine. Pfsense and Vyos can be used together but that would be redundant. Simple designs are the best designs.

Would it be possible to virtualize this if you had the extra CPU power and pcie lanes?

This is a great video. Thanks! I might be trying this out. Big question: Can I get respectable performance from cheaper hardware with low port counts?... like if I dug through my computer graveyard and put 2 or 3 of these $99 ASUS copper cards inside?

@Itechstorm

6 жыл бұрын

It’s worth a shot. You may not even need the full 10Gb performance anyway. Even if you only get 4Gb that’s 4x faster than 1Gb.

Hi there. great video! Only issue i have is im trying to do this on a desktop based i5 PC. The only option in the bios that is remotely similar to those advanced options you specified is enabling Virtualization technology. Are those options really necessary? You sounded full of conviction so im assuming they are important... but how important is my question? lol.

Can you comment on the cost aspect? What parts did you select and how do they compare to a currently available commercial switches? For example I know that capable of the shelf switch could cost around $1000.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

Well, it's never easy to throw out one price fits all comments. So on one end if you already have a system laying around (doesn't need to be anything special), and you can pickup a dual port card on E-Bay for $50... that's your cost. On the other side of the equation if you have to build a system from scratch, your price tag is going to be a lot higher. The best part is that your Network Operating System is no cost. Beautiful!

What about link aggregation? Can I do this with a Celeron and a motherboard msi z170 pro?

Very interesting and well done video. How much did the end result cost, and what would a comparable "off the shelf" switch cost?

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

Well, it's really difficult to answer your question directly but generally speaking my intent was for people to use a system they had sitting on a shelf that could accommodate a few PCIe cards. Purchase the 10Gb cards for $18-$50 each (ebay), and grab a Direct Attach Copper cable for $18. If you have to purchase system components your costs are going to go up from there obviously. Everyone's cost is going to be different. I used a system I purchased for a SAN build, but just about anything with decent power and bandwidth will work.

I subbed for this video

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

many thanks!

@stonent

6 жыл бұрын

Same

can you please create a demo of google jupiter netwok switching fabric at home?

Nice work - Does VyOS support 10Gb over USB 3.0? With card like Mailiya PCI-E to USB 3.0 5-Port PCI could you get 5 ports per PCI-E slot?

You could do this with for example 25 or even 100 Gbe cards ?

what MTU would i need for a: HP InfiniBand 10GB/40GB

Why no more videos for 2 years?? Pls do part 4, on NAS 10Gbe home /office network. Pls.

I just want to add at 9:44, this is only true for PCIe NICs. It does not blink for onboard NIC and you cannot re-arrange the onboard NIC if you have multiple ones.

I'm starting research into how to build a multi purpose machine that is both a nas and switch. Do you have any ideas that could help?

My question would be is it really worth it to build your own compare to an already built switch? I'm looking at it between the price point of a homelab and a datacenter. it's awesome to build your own network switch and all but not sure other then a costly of cards as well as motherboard with a lot of lanes on it.

nice video! but would it work with your bog standard consumer grade motherboard +cpu combo? without all the fancy IOAT and DCA...etc options in BIOS? Sounds like a nice project to undertake if possible.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+Steve Lee really good question! My approach was aimed at achieving an "optimal" configuration. I wanted to show it was possible to reach those speeds at home. You can certainly achieve a great result even without the optimal tech (IOAT, DCA, etc). Everyone's mileage will be different because the performance is highly dependent on the type of hardware you are using and the configuration. If you can get 2-4 Gbps, that's already a massive improvement over 1 Gbps. So beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)

Could this all be done in a vm using pci pass-through?

Question: How does IP assignment work with bridging all devices? Can you still utilize your router's DHCP function to assign IP addresses to devices connected through the bridged connections? Does this automatically obtain IP's or do you need to assign them seperately? Can you manually assign IP's as well? Like you I attempted to connected a 10gig server and Work station via PFsense and I got sub par results in transfer speeds... surprisingly even worse than 1gig. I'd really like to make an affordable 10gig switch that I can expand in the future.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your question Eric. Just like any other conventional switch the bridged ports will pass a DHCP request through just fine. In my demo, I assigned a static IP address to the VyOS switch itself. This was for the purpose of easy management, but normally a basic/unmanaged switch would not have an IP assigned. I'm pretty sure you could configure the VyOS interface to request an IP dynamically too. So you should be just fine.

Very nice! I just bought Quanta LB6M for 230.00 from unix suplus. CRAZY CHEAP! 24 ports of 10Gb goodness. If you don't need that many ports there are a ton of Dell Force10 switches out there for under 100.00 like S50-10-GE-48T-AC which has 4 10Gbit and 48 1Gbit ports. I needed 8 ports of 10Gbit or i would have considered something like this. Also, if you are on Windows 2012 or better and want maximum throughput on SMB shares you will need a card that supports SMB Direct/Multichannel via RDMA the mellanox connectx-2 cards don't have this but I haven't found it to be a huge bottleneck. Lastly, the cost of cables is kind of crazy too. For long runs I'm using fiber and sfp transevers which for long runs is WAY cheaper than trying to get a DAC cable. for short stuff DAC is the way to go.

@cypher526

7 жыл бұрын

You sure the the Force10 S50 switches support 10Gb via the front 4 ports though? I thought those were only SFP ports (not SFP+). I thought only the rear expansion modules supported 10Gb (via XFP modules) and only for switch stacking.

@BrianThomas

7 ай бұрын

Yikes!! That's 130 watts while idling.

helpful

Wow this was very useful for me, thank you very much for this very well explained video. I would like to know if on this switch I can create vlans. I'm going to build one of these and would like to use vlans in my vmware projects. It is possible ? Thanks in advance for your help.

@Itechstorm

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Here’s the link to get you started: support.vyos.io/en/kb/articles/vlan-sub-interfaces-802-1q-2

where have you gotten the full size pci covers for this chelsio cards? i only see them with low profile (2U) covers.

@Itechstorm

7 жыл бұрын

+austriangamers390 the cards I ordered had a full height backplate attached. Another option, you could contact Chelsio customer service and order one. Make sure you can do that before you buy the card. And one word of caution with the Chelsio cards, they run hot so make sure your case is pushing air across your PCIe cards. Good luck!

How does IPFire stack up against VyOS, I wonder? It is also a GNU/Linux router OS. VyOS is currently command line only, which does not appeal to me.

problem I had when I built my 10 gb network is that it defaulted only to xfinity ipnetwork & would not add A second nic - the second 10 gb only worked when the xfinity was off the lan - is this normal

One of the most useful and thoroughly explained videos out there on Vyos. I was able to build a virtualized switch in ESXi. It was a little more involved setting the MTU of each vSwitch, port group, and VM, but was not far from what you were accomplishing in the video. However, I was not able to find out how to install iperf on Vyos. Any tips? wget keeps giving http/ftp errors despite there being a clear internet connection.

@Itechstorm

6 жыл бұрын

IPerf is already installed on the vyos device. I just checked in version 1.1.8. You should be able to run it from the cmd line. man iperf iperf -s

@AndrewGrosmanEnUfor

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was quick. I swear I tried it before and it didn't show it was installed! :P Well, that fixed my issue

@Itechstorm

6 жыл бұрын

Happy iperfing trails! Outstanding utility! Checkout “bmon” if you haven’t seen that one yet either.

How will the 10G "switch" run if one uses less powerful CPU, like i3 or i5 instead of a Xeon? Do 10GbE enterprise switches have Xeon CPUs inside?

How would VLANs work across the Bridge, I normally just trunk my ports and tagged server or VM side.

@Itechstorm

8 жыл бұрын

I believe this is what you are looking for. I haven't tested this myself, but this should accomplish the same thing: wiki.vyos.net/wiki/User_Guide#VLAN_Sub-Interfaces_.28802.1Q.29 See the bridge example underneath too.

great video, and great work, i am installing Vyos too and it seems it has no support for my Mellanox NICs do you have any idea or litterature , on driver install solutions / scripts thanks a lot !

@Itechstorm

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t have any specific docs on what you are asking for, but you might check the forms to see if anyone else has a workaround.