Comment on 2.5g capable SFP+ switch or media converters
ostsjoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have no way to test this with the equipment I have, but what about opnsense on an x86-64 box and throw an sfp+ pcie card in there. You could then in theory turn off auto negotiation and set it to 2.5g. Has anyone out there tried this?
I’ve been running opnsense with my CenturyLink 1g setup, though I’m still using their ont to convert to copper, and been very happy with it.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’d need a card capable of 2.5 gig and I haven’t been able to find one of those either.
My friend did find these which should work. I think I have a spare 2.5 gig nic somewhere that I could install into my server. I’ll have to do pcie pass through straight to pfsense since ESXi doesn’t support this el cheapo consumer grade nic. But it should work.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4JKSFW6
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C871SQVQ
SteveTech@programming.dev 1 year ago
This guy managed to modify a Broadcom NIC to support 2.5G SFP: github.com/Berzerker/google-fiber-2gbps-bypass
I mean it isn’t great to have to mod something, but at least it’s something.