nightshade00013
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- Apr 9, 2015
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@Chris Moore Shoestring and as much as possible, LOL. Right now I am tapped out for a month or two. I have to find something with at least two 10G ports and would prefer to have a couple extra for additions. That is why the Quanta would work out well. Right now I have an 8 port gigabit switch sitting next to the router which has to daisy a couple other switches. One line off the main switch goes to my living room where a five port switch distributes to the TV, my dekstop and my wife's laptop. The other switch that goes from the first 8 port heads into where the FreeNAS sits and has a wireless router set as an access point and the FreeNAS.
My main goal was to get the FreeNAS and my desktop into as fast and direct a route as possible hence using a couple extra cards for now in my router and bridging them with the LAN. Then later on I can just grab a switch and slowly add whatever I choose. I know that I can just drop the line straight from the FreeNAS to my Desktop and I have enough OM3 to do that but having it ran to where the router is just makes dropping in a single switch easier since my plan is to replace the 8 port with one larger switch.
My main goal was to get the FreeNAS and my desktop into as fast and direct a route as possible hence using a couple extra cards for now in my router and bridging them with the LAN. Then later on I can just grab a switch and slowly add whatever I choose. I know that I can just drop the line straight from the FreeNAS to my Desktop and I have enough OM3 to do that but having it ran to where the router is just makes dropping in a single switch easier since my plan is to replace the 8 port with one larger switch.