Dumb questions for people turning these boxes into 10gbe routers:
If you buy a single port NIC, won’t you have to give up on WOL & vPro? Surely you want the fast port facing the LAN, which means the onboard port becomes the WAN, which won’t be reachable from your management/controller apps.
Ok...
Per rootwyrm's excellent writeup, I'm leaning Delta:
Only issue I can see is that the EFB0412VHD-F00 specs a minimum 7V, while Brocade's "speed 1" is like 40% of 12V. Guess it should be ok so long as the PWM modulation is done right...
Got a new 6450-48P and am looking into fan swaps. Thermals should reflect its light duty (<1Gbps most of the time, maybe 15Gbps peak; 20-30W PoE; racked in a well ventilated closet).
I see many have recommended Sunon -A99 models (or equiv under the old naming scheme), but their datasheet...
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