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There is a very active community on discord discussing XGSPON, link is at the pon.wiki site. I am tempted to bypass my Frontier FRX523 but 1) I'm not clear on the advantage, I already get 2.5 Gbps up/down and 5 ms pings to my closest DNS (9.9.9.9) on my 2 Gbps plan. How much better can it get...

What makes you think it will be cooler? I always thought that the heat is mostly from the modules plugged into the SFP+ cage, not the underlying X710 or whatever. Modules for RJ45 10GbaseT get very hot, but optical modules less so.

The more I look a FreeBSD the less I like it. The VirtIO driver is 10x slower than linux. The SR-VIO is not working (and reading the readme in the source, even if it was working it doesn't allow promiscuous mode, so tcpdump won't work... something I use quite a lot). I don't know if just...

There is a interesting and quite detailed article on getting SR-IOV working in both FreeBSD and Linux here.

@EncryptedUsername I'm very tempted with this h/w and have been thinking of deploying pfSense or OPNsense in Proxmox. But the problem with FreeBSD and virtIO is an inhibitor. I was hoping that SR-IOV would solve it. I assume you checked out this in the Proxmox docs? And as of today nothing...