On Aug 12, 2011 6:08 PM, "Leo Bicknell" <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > > In a message written on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On > > the extreme end of course we have mr morris :) > > with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm > > I have installed a 2 post rack in a previous house, and wired several > houses now with Cat 5E to every room. That said, I gave up on large > amounts of equipment at home a long time ago. Be it the power bill, > AC needs, or just plain noise from data center equipment they are > all good reasons to not have gear at home. > > A quality home router is important, I've rolled my own with FreeBSD > running on a PC-Engines box, 5W, no fan, sitting on a 1000VA UPS, > it lasts for like 3+ hours when the power fails. I've also had > luck with some Netgear boxes. Simiarly a good WiFi box, these days > MIMO on both 2.4 and 5Ghz. Airport Exterme or Netgear again are > good choices. Don't want to roll your own? Consider OpenWRT, or > CeroWRT on the right hardware. > > Beyond that, a nice home file server, rsynced to something in a > real data center each night. This a combo of backup plus high speed > access no matter which side of the home connection you are on. I > currently use a PC I built myself, which is good, but I would like > something that uses less power. I'm looking hard at a Mac Mini > "server", with an external RAID (perhaps 2x3TB drives, RAID 1) as > I think it will draw even less power, but I'm not sure yet. > > You might notice a trend with me, low power, which means low heat > output and long runtime on UPS, fanless so no noise, small footprint. > Gotta have GigE to every room wired for desktops, printers, cameras, > TV's, playstations, etc. Netgear 5 port switches are awesome, > lifetime warranty, small, cheap. > > The holy grail I'm searching for now? A GigE switch with POE, > unmanaged is ok, and probably preferred from a price perspective; > but with NO FAN. >
I have a spare Poe dummy switch you are welcome to. Oh and it doesn't have a fan, > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
