As I’ve mentioned before, I’m using VyOS for my router. If you’re not familiar with VyOS, go check it out. Its community version is open source, extreamly flexable, command line only, has a great community, reasonably good documentation,and people have strong…

With the router hardware complete, it’s time to move onto the software. But even before that I need to lay out what the network is going to look like as that drives the actual router configuration. I’m planning to use a zone based system layout and segment the network into 8…

I couldn’t help myself. I picked up a second SX1024 switch. Why you ask? Redundancy, or better yet… a spare. Everything has a usable life, and if the switch fails, I want to be able to get back up and running as quickly as possible. I’m not expecting it to fail (it’s built like a…

There are 3 things I needed to do to get the B550 MB to fit into the SC513 chassis: Cut the VR heatsink that mounts directly in front of the IO. Remove the audio jacks from the MB. Cut holes in the chassis that align with the IO connectors on the MB. This blog is going to be more…

In my last post I said “Unless something goes awry, the plan is…” Well… it went awry. First, I couldn’t find a decent place to mount the RTL8126 connector on the front panel without adding a longer ribbon cable between the NIC mounted in the M.2 slot and the connector on the…