Asrock H270M-ITXac - interesting new board. Kaby-Lake + 2x1GB Intel NICs
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How does the HP NC365T compared to the NC364T nic? Any advantages?
A quick google search shows that both use the same Intel 82571EB chipset. Can't imagine there's much difference in real world use or performance.
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I beg to differ.
https://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/content-webapp/document?docId=emr_na-c02241476 -
Basic VPN speed tests (same setup as in post #12)
The intranet is 192.168.10.0/24
pfSense has WAN IP 192.168.10.100VPN client is macOS 10.12.4 (192.168.10.146)
Endpoint (within pfSense LAN) is macOS 10.12.4 (192.168.1.130)–------------------------------------------------
L2TP over IPSec
Used macOS built in network pane to set it up415 Mbits/sec average
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IKEv2
Used Apple Configurator Version 2.3 (3D68) to make cert based profile
Connection afterwards in OS built in network pane499 Mbits/sec average
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OpenVPN
Used Tunnelblick client (OpenVPN 2.4.0, OpenSSL 1.0.2k), cert based304 Mbits/sec average
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I did not test pfSense loading averages, but on first glance monitoring history reports max sysload 27.26%
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Hello,
I'm tempted to build a similar one:
- Asrock H270M-ITX/AC £124.55
- Intel Core I3-7100T £117.35
- Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) £64.99
- Samsung SM961 Polaris 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe High Performance SSD £74.53
- SilverStone SST-ML05B (micro-itx case) £42.10
- Corsair SF Series SF450 SFF 450 W Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Unit £78.72
That's a high perf 2x intel nic box for £500 which should be way overkill for my home usage.
But it seems future proof:- could swap i3 with i7 and potentially a xeon E3 if they add the supports?
- up to 32GB
- expansion card possible with 2x or 4x intel nics
Or I could get a zotac zbox ci323 for £150 + adding a bit of ram and ssd. But seems pretty sad after the other build :-)
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Hello,
I'm tempted to build a similar one:
- Asrock H270M-ITX/AC £124.55
- Intel Core I3-7100T £117.35
- Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) £64.99
- Samsung SM961 Polaris 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe High Performance SSD £74.53
- SilverStone SST-ML05B (micro-itx case) £42.10
- Corsair SF Series SF450 SFF 450 W Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Unit £78.72
That's a high perf 2x intel nic box for £500 which should be way overkill for my home usage.
But it seems future proof:- could swap i3 with i7 and potentially a xeon E3 if they add the supports?
- up to 32GB
- expansion card possible with 2x or 4x intel nics
Or I could get a zotac zbox ci323 for £150 + adding a bit of ram and ssd. But seems pretty sad after the other build :-)
Future proof, for home use? Out of curiosity, what are you guys using home routers for that you benefit from paying for prosumer SSD's & RAM, and paying extra for dual on-board NIC's as opposed to server pull i340-t4's when you'll be adding more NICs anyways?
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Asrock dual intel nic mobo in the end cost me 107 EUR + VAT
This is the cheapest Mini ITX mobo with dual NICs and M2 (meaning WAN and LAN is covered out of box, disk with no cabling).
Sure there are cheaper mobos (sub 100 EUR), but they are with one NIC and are mATX. I paid extra for combination of small form factor, dual NICs and M2 NVMe.
NVMe SSD cost 90 EUR. I could save saved some euros if going M2 SATA (starting 50 EUR, those below (Transcend brand) are super slow and have heating issues), but eh. M2 NVMe is more energy efficient than M2 SATA. Plain ol sata needing cables for power and data, meh (see photo in post #9 - thats finished system with all actual cabling). M2 NVMe = fast cache = fast logs = fast DB I/O = sad panda bit more happy.
Corsair 8GB DDR4 for 57 EUR. DDR3 costs the same. It's hard to buy less nowadays :)This will be used in office.
- everyday backup of local 36TB RAIDZ NAS via VPN to offsite NAS,
- everyday serving cloud (i migrated from owncloud to nextcloud ~ 2 months ago, been running it for years) that sits in LAN of ~TB throughput (pulled this from air, was to lazy to check whilst writing this).
disk consuming work on workstations (2D/3D animations) - each autosave/save hit means - sync now that multiple GB projectfile(s) for me. all colleagues together might hit "multiple hundred of saves per day".
and work is collaborative (not all, shared cloud directories), so if one hits save, it goes to cloud, afterwards it is populated back to all other clients, that work on other aspects for the project. for those wondering - locally i have 16 such workstations, but not all are in same useshare groups, or move stuff around from user dir to shared dirs, so each "1GB" save is not exactly "16GB" of traffic. thus ~TB guess per day.
yes, it does not hit router due to local DNS (stays inbound within switch), but when i finally finish this build i could do play with better security and throw cloud in different LAN all together (meaning all this would hit router) with different fw rules, or VLAN it. - serving cloud outbound to clients to check WIPs
- serving cloud for clients to upload data
- serving cloud for "remote devices" - laptops, some home computers are also logged in cloud, can work on projects wherever
- serving web development server that sits in LAN. usual stuff. clients check WIP and on QA first content management is done in our server, before pushing to prod, but, sure, that is not every day. however - there are times when client is biggy and like all department wants to check WIPs.
- serving VPN to developers that work at home/beach to do git push for code on local devserver
- serving VPN to serve NAS outbound (this is rare, as all current projects are within cloud which is open to public, but sometimes you have to pull that old archived project from NAS)
- serving office guest WiFi network (APs)
i've been running this setup for years now - the new thing in progress is everyday offsite backup that i really wish to add (previously it was once a month) and thought - well, i'm going to give myself a present - a new router along the way for robust VPN. please say it is deserved, my gf thinks otherwise :(
keywords: stable IObound traffic & VPN needed with future room to extra DMZ some stuff on OPT interfaces.
at home i use cheapest TPLINK router possible :)
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That is a cool setup for sure, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for your feedback kroko, it helps me to figure out what I need ! :)
I think I will go for the i3-7300 CPU because it's 4GHz @ base frequency and I don't really care about TDP, electricity is cheap in France. But I hesitate to go with the ASUS P10S-I
mobo and it's dual lan or go with a cheaper mini-itx mobo and PCIe HP NC364T. I'de prefer to get 4 ethernet ports to be future proof but I don't know if it's possible to fit the PCIe HP NC364T inside SilverStone SST-ML05B. It seems like the bracket of the PCIe card won't be in correct position, am I right ? -
Ok I've seen a video where the SilverStone SST-ML05B would be just fine with a PCIe card. But a M300 mini-box would require a PCIe riser card.
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Hi
Ive ordered Asrock H270M-ITX/ac few days ago along with G4560T and 8gb stick of 2400 cl15 ram and should have it soon. From what i know next month my isp is finally going fiber around here with 900/100 top offer (probably ETTH so i think will be able to connect cable directly to pfsense router and just use mac from isp device).
Is it any differ which port will be WAN and which LAN on this motherboard?. LAN port will be connected to small TP-Link TL-SG105E (managed) switch and from there to two home pc's and two AP's in different parts of my home (nothing fancy here).
Thanks!
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i think that mother board has two intel NICs?
If so, then it doesn't matter.
If not then WAN should be intel and LAN should be whatever is left over.
Unless you route a lot of inter-LAN traffic, then probably switch them. -
I beg to differ.
https://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/content-webapp/document?docId=emr_na-c02241476I stand corrected.