Around this time of year, I start to get itchy fingers and need a project to kill a day or so, off i went researching and have now pfsense running 10Gb, totally overkill yes but hey ho
Spec:
i5-7500T
16Gb
512GB nvme
10Gb Mellanox ConnectX-3 MCX312A-XCBT
1x 10Gb DAC
1x 10GBASE-T SFP+ RJ45 Transceiver Module (FS.com SFP-10G-T)
3x Zyxel XGS1210-12 around the house
ISP - 1Gb Virgin Media - SH5 in Modem mode using 2.5GBe port.
Running proxmox just for the hell of it, the machine runs at 16W idle which is pretty good for 10Gb card and 10GBASE-T module as they run quite power heavy. I may setup another pihole for HA but will have to see, got to make most of proxmox!
Currently running Cat5e and Cat6 around the house so using the 2.5Gb switch ports for some runs, this works quite well, my Unraid server has a 2.5Gbe onboard and iperf from pfsense to it maxes out the 2.5gbe, im also taking advantage of the over-provisioning Virgin do with the speeds.
Next is to grab a 10Gbe card for Unraid and see if I can get away with running anything up to 10Gb over Cat6
all good fun!
Spec:
i5-7500T
16Gb
512GB nvme
10Gb Mellanox ConnectX-3 MCX312A-XCBT
1x 10Gb DAC
1x 10GBASE-T SFP+ RJ45 Transceiver Module (FS.com SFP-10G-T)
3x Zyxel XGS1210-12 around the house
ISP - 1Gb Virgin Media - SH5 in Modem mode using 2.5GBe port.
Running proxmox just for the hell of it, the machine runs at 16W idle which is pretty good for 10Gb card and 10GBASE-T module as they run quite power heavy. I may setup another pihole for HA but will have to see, got to make most of proxmox!
Currently running Cat5e and Cat6 around the house so using the 2.5Gb switch ports for some runs, this works quite well, my Unraid server has a 2.5Gbe onboard and iperf from pfsense to it maxes out the 2.5gbe, im also taking advantage of the over-provisioning Virgin do with the speeds.
Next is to grab a 10Gbe card for Unraid and see if I can get away with running anything up to 10Gb over Cat6
all good fun!
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