Greetings,
Does anyone have a recommendation on a managed 2.5 Gbe switch similar to Mikrotik RB260GSP?
Thanks in advance
Does anyone have a recommendation on a managed 2.5 Gbe switch similar to Mikrotik RB260GSP?
Thanks in advance
so far my preference is
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IIRC those N5105 chips don't support vPro and there are no ME/AMT options in the BIOS nor are those mentioned in the product specs (or intel ark for N5105), so I suspect one doesn't have to worry about that backdoor on those appliances.about topton appliances, do they come with Intel ME chipset ?
gateway_enable="YES"
ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"
cloned_interfaces="bridge0 bridge1 igc0.10 igc0.20"
ifconfig_igc0="up"
ifconfig_igc0_10="up"
ifconfig_igc0_20="up"
ifconfig_igc1="up"
ifconfig_igc2="up"
ifconfig_igc3="up"
ifconfig_igc4="up"
ifconfig_igc5="up"
ifconfig_bridge0_name="wanbridge"
ifconfig_wanbridge="addm igc0.10 addm igc1 up"
ifconfig_bridge1_name="lanbridge"
ifconfig_lanbridge="inet $IP/$CIDR addm igc0.20 addm igc2 addm igc3 addm igc4 addm igc5 up"
defaultrouter="$GATEWAY"
If you want/need reasonable power consumption and heat dissipation (and working firmware...), don't use samsung. they are absolutely horrible in those regards...However, my latest appliance has cooling issues with a pair of NVMe M.2 SSDs. Cooling problems are not unusual for these particular SSDs, but they were reporting 80C at idle. That's 10C over their maximum rating! There are mutually exclusive options (because of space constraints) to either fit heat sinks or a 40x40x10 12V fan. I have chosen a PWM fan, but I'm not entirely confident that PWM is a better choice than either heat sinks or a fixed speed fan. I will report on the outcome.
I was referring to something like that article - > https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.htmlIf you want/need reasonable power consumption and heat dissipation (and working firmware...), don't use samsung. they are absolutely horrible in those regards...
I'm using mainly WD blue in such appliances or e.g. NUCs with limited cooling and they are working just fine while easily having (less than) half the power consumption compared to samsung.
regarding the graphics: scfb will always work if you really want to drag a monitor and keybord to a networking appilance, otherwise just use the serial console. I've set up all of those topton devices via serial console and couldn't care less about the integrated graphics.
petru garstea why and what do you want to "optimize"? is anything not working properly? Usually most tuneables in FreeBSD are automatically adjusting at startup and don't need any intervention (there's actually a recent thread about that here in the forums...). So if nothing is broken, just leave things at their defaults...