So I stumbled across this not long ago Numbers don’t lie—it’s time to build your own router and I was curious what other people think of the idea. I mean I definately like the idea on some level - though on another i'm feeling nuts when you buy a dedicated x86 computer to be the router, to send the packets to your dedicated x86 computer which is your desktop, saving the files to a dedicated x86 computer which is your homebuilt NAS. Sometimes I wonder if we could do it with just one... or add other functionality besides routing... but between performance issues, and things that came out in the Edward Snowden revelations about high end routers right through to Cisco having back doors, I find myself thinking it's not a bad idea afterall.
I'm curious if there is a "go to" place to discuss such things, especially if instead of multiple 1gig someone is looking at more like 10gig speeds (or attempting to), or what the limit is if you need alot of ports (ive seen 4 ports on an x1 card but haven't seen many mobos with more than 3-4 pcie x1 slots besides the one or two x16 slots, despite seven allowed on the ATX standard), how the power usage works out vs 'professional' routers and similar.
Whats your take and if you wanted to build this where would you suggest researching?
I'm curious if there is a "go to" place to discuss such things, especially if instead of multiple 1gig someone is looking at more like 10gig speeds (or attempting to), or what the limit is if you need alot of ports (ive seen 4 ports on an x1 card but haven't seen many mobos with more than 3-4 pcie x1 slots besides the one or two x16 slots, despite seven allowed on the ATX standard), how the power usage works out vs 'professional' routers and similar.
Whats your take and if you wanted to build this where would you suggest researching?