PoE motherboard

[McJester]

Hi

I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of a motherboard that that fits these requirements

- 2 ethernet ports
- 1 of which can supply PoE
- preferably small, micro or nano itx

what I want to do is build a router/firewall to replace my BT Home hub and use a cisco AP for wireless, and as these AP's can work on poe and there is a lack of power sockets where it is going I thought this would be the best idea.

Any ideas welcome

Peter

[Funkstar]

Perhaps someone else can suggest something, but I've never heard of a motherboard having PoE. I think a PoE injector would be your best bet.

[peterb]

Either a PoE injector (as funkstar suggests, or a local switch that has PoE ports. The injector will be the cheaper solution for a one off link. Don't forget that you will need an extractor at the other end (unless you are using dedicated PoE equipment) and. iirc, you will be limited to 100Mb/s over the PoE link.

[wasabi]

I'd be doubly careful too with Cisco APs. Have had several issues with them in the past when trying to use non Cisco-branded PoE injectors, or issues with them carrying juice more than about 50cm.

[McJester]

Thanks for the help.

I have found a network card that will do it, but it is £150 mark, so looks like it will have to be the injector extractor.


Peter

[burble]

iirc, you will be limited to 100Mb/s over the PoE link.

Shouldn't be, you can run PoE over a gigabit link.

[peterb]

Shouldn't be, you can run PoE over a gigabit link.

My bad - alternative A! (I was thinking of the spare pair implementation - alternative B)