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The "Digg" Case January 19, 2007
The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" |
| | | | October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" May 10, 2005
The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" |
| | | | September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" January 23, 2004
The "Attache Server" January 22, 2004
"Racing The Light" January 21, 2004
VIA's Flat Panel DevKits January 20, 2004
The "Ambulator I" January 19, 2004
The "Borg Appliance" December 19, 2003
The Gingerbread Village Server December 04, 2003
Custom PC's XmasTreePC December 01, 2003
"Windows XP Box" November 12, 2003
"R2D2PC" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "FileServerRouterSwitch"
Introduction
I had a bunch of junk in my cupboard, like 2 switches, a router, a Mini-ITX fileserver
without a case, and a lot of wiring. I thought it should be possible to build an all in one
solution.
I bought a second-hand SCSI cabinet, and replaced the PSU with a ATX-PSU.
With some backpanel modifications, I mounted a Linksys SD216 switch in the back
with three 6-port patch modules.
Internally I connected the lower right patch port, with the first LAN-port on a PD10000
Mini-ITX board. The second LAN-port on the PD10000 is connected with port 16 on
the SD216. Ports 1 to 15 of the SD216 switch are internally connected with port
1 to 15 on the patch modules:
4 IDE HD drives, cased in Coolermaster Cooldrive 3 cases, gives the
FileserverRouterSwitch a futuristic look. The PD10000 is mounted on the bottom of
the former SCSI cabinet:
If I needed to, I could still place a PCI card in the Socket. It fits between the HD cabinet
and the case housing.
The OS is Windows Server 2003 Standard edition, with Routing and Remote Access
enabled, for the Router function. The FileserverRouterSwitch is now operational and
stable for about a month, and I think it will be stable for the rest of its long life.
Maybe I will add wireless capabilities in the future, in the little space I have left in the
upper back of the FileserverRouterSwitch.
You may have noticed the lack of external mouse/keyboard and VGA connectors. This is
not a problem, because administration of the FileserverRouterSwitch is done over the LAN with Remote Desktop Connection.
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