10Gb Home Network (P3) - Build A Switch

Build a 10Gb network switch for home or a Small Medium Business (SMB). Part 3 in 10Gb Home Network Series that shows you how to leverage 10Gb now, avoid pit-falls, and keep things affordable.
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Hardware:

NICs used in this video (way overkill for home use):
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Useful Gear:
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Shopping List (From Part 2 - Peer-to-Peer):
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Mellanox Network Adapters:
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Intel:
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Intel x540 Family (10G-BaseT):
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Background music attribution:
Stepping Along the Sky Redux
Should You Need Elevator Music

[MrMoonsilver]

Watching this in 2023 and it's so useful. Thank you so much for uploading this!!

[teagarden]

I don't even care what the subject of this video was. It was so well presented, with so much clarity and insight. Thank you for putting this out there. I'm kidding, I really do care about high speed networking.

[lawrenceify]

i really want you to do another one of these just for testing see if there is any better software or see if it will even really work

[Itechstorm]

Just published part 3 of 10Gb Home Network - Build A Switch. In this video we wrap the 10Gb Home Network series with a really fun project to build a very powerful and usable home brew 10Gb network switch. All the magic is embedded in the network operating system. I invested easily over 100 hours of designing, building, troubleshooting, and testing in this project (just part 3) so I stand by the results. Now you can build one using my recipe. I hope you enjoy the end result!

[marbranchez]

Wow this was very useful for me, thank you very much for this very well explained video. I would like to know if on this switch I can create vlans. I'm going to build one of these and would like to use vlans in my vmware projects. It is possible ? Thanks in advance for your help.

[SpazHeadSlotVideos]

I wanted to thank you for your awesome 10Gb series, i was able to make my own 10GBe switch for my unraid server using all 3 of your videos.

[Narwaro]

You need to upload more regularly!! Very enjoyable. You inspired me to start a project like this as a VM on my storage/VM server.

[zaggery]

I tried building a DIY 10gb Network Switch a year ago, and everywhere I went people said it wouldn't work. I got it working in a dell PowerEdge 2950 but it would only do like 500MB in one card and out another. I ended up buying a 10gb switch (crazy expensive). Glad you figured it out. Now you have to build a raid0 fileserver with ssd's. I get 2000MB read and write on mine. Loading games over 10Gb is faster than my 2 ssd raid0 on my gaming machine because over the network the game loads straight into RAM. =)

[DaedalEVE]

OMG I LOVE YOU!
Am having a new home built, and decided that I wanted to upgrade to 10GigE and start putting everything on NAS.
My god is this helpful!

[sking]

The most informative video I have ever seen brother, you rocked it

[jeffrisdon]

That was awesome! Really learned a-lot! Thank you for this well detailed video!

[alexitanguay]

I want more videos like this, they're the best!

[jolebole-yt]

Awsome 10G guide series. I am currently upgrading my home-labs on 10G with new FreeNAS as my VM storage. I was debating what to about the 10G switch since they are sooo expense - VyOS looks like its gonna do great. Ubiquity runs a fork of Vayata on their Edge Switches and Routers and they run superb. Good job and thanks for all the info provided in the description!

[tomare]

Very well done. Looks like you put a lot of tie into the video. Thankyou

[fotografm]

Thank you so much for this excellent series ! I am learning a lot and can't wait to put it into practice.

[mrlithium]

That bios is intense with the specialized payload settings and all the other cool server stuff. Wish mine was like that.

[CineTechGeek]

One issue. Putting together this hardware does approch the cost of purchasing a Netgear 8 or 12 port 10Gbe Switch...
Tho it does have more versatility in terms of using copper/fiber plus 40Gbe cards could also be used I suppose..

[tomwhite]

Great video! I just picked up a quanta 25 port 10gb switch off ebay for like $350. Works great!

[thegreatga]

This guy has his shit together. Excellent video series!

[rikvdmark]

Really great series. Well made! Really liked the way you explained everything and why you made certain choices.
Vyos really reminds me of working on Juniper network gear.
Thanks!