I've spec'd out this hardware from NewEgg and I'm just wondering if anyone has any experiences or known issues of trying to run ROS on this system:
It will also have the 4 port gigabit PCI Card from supermicro.
I've been looking at that but a lot of the models on that list are old and impossible to find... I wouldn't mind the older hardware but I just can't find a lot of those items.I would personally stick with what is on the HCL. There are many factors when building your own system, and you never know if there is going to be an incompatability. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Supported ... 86_Systems is where you want to look.
Thanks for that info! I've been looking at your build but that motherboard is no longer available in Canada I could always order it from amazon but it's PITA.Go for it, then let's get it added to the HCL. Nothing is going to get added to the HCL without users testing things. It's not like Mikrotik goes out and buys this stuff and tests it themselves.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28184
If the SuperMicro NICs aren't Intel chipset then I wouldn't use it. Also, if you really meant PCI, do yourself a favor and get PCI-e. The URL above shows a system I built for under $600 and is more powerful than most people need. Now if MT would get RouterOS a little more SMP friendly it would be nice.
Sam
True! with that being said though... I won't be routing in the gbps in the near future... Lucky if I can sustain 50mbps upstreamJust remember, there quite abit more to getting a high-preformance RouterOS system than just slap some NICs in a PC and it will do GigE routing. IRQs, buss limitiations, etc all have to be taken into account!