Comment on choosing a NIC for OPNsense
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoOh i know they arent going to rip out existing support over this drama, but I really want to cut intel out of things wherever I can anyway. They have been on my shit list for years over corporate assholery. But now if they fail or break up or spin off divisions, the new owners of the networking division could theoretically throw the stability of that line into question so since I’m starting from a clean slate, I’d like to just avoid all that if possible.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just go get any of the enterprise parts from a couple years ago. Mellanox, lucent, qlogic, hpe, these are all fairly well supported by freebsd.
I would avoid Broadcom and Realtek, they are better supported today, but performance is an issue.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
enterprise wont likely support 2.5gig which is what I’m targeting for this build. 10 gig is too expensive and power hungry for my tastes but 2.5 or 5 should be fine.
KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.
KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I need VLANs and I’m planning some PoE+ stuff too, meaning higher costs though now that I think about it those are probably more common in 10Gig switches anyway. But that still means they are consuming more power, making more heat, making more nose from fans…