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I am trying to find a 4+ port 100Gb Ethernet switch for our office (4 people who need 100G). Connection from fifteen total office PCs to on site server in the same building. There will not be a huge amount of traffic. We are currently using Dropbox, but we have experienced syncing issues and...

Hello, I'm new here and I hope to get some advice. I'm trying to build a mini firewall pfSense PC with unusal setup: two WiFi network cards in one box. Let's put aside the fact that pfSense is considered very poor for wireless networking due to limited support of wireless cards. That would be a...

I need to access two vlans (vlan 10 and vlan 20) from my windows 11 machine. On my switch I have a trunk with the two tagged vlans. On windows, I created a vswitch and then two interfaces. I set the ID on interface A to 10 and on B to 20. The problem is that in order for them to work I still...

Hi, I need some help on an older Cisco ASR-1001, NOT the X or what not, the plain ASR1001 router with the SPA board and the XSP module in it to connect to a SFP+ 10G module. I got the fiber modules form FS (XFP-10GLR-31) and the site clearly say it isa multirate type and compatible with either...

Hi everyone! I have a Proxmox 7.4-17 with a Debian 11.6 (“Bullseye”) on my computer. I have the following network card: Device Type: ConnectX3Pro Part Number: ... Description: HP InfiniBand FDR/Ethernet 10Gb/40Gb 2-port 544+QSFP Adapter PSID: HP_1370110017...

Another hot one for the SFP+ community ... I guess bids ~125USD will be accepted Source: Arista DCS-7050SX-64-R

Source: Debian on Mellanox SN2700 (32x100G)

Greetings everyone! I'm my looking for network advice to build a network for a home use case. First and foremost is or any great Black Friday deals that would fit well with the cost-conscious budget? Dedicated router/firewall already purchased. A industrial x86 PC, passively cooled, eight gigs...

I have a couple VLANs and I wanted to set an upstream DHCP relay on them so I could point it to a DHCP server I'm hosting, but the switch is giving me an error if I try to enable it at all. This is said throughout when I just try to enable it or point it to a helper address at all, I can go...

Inspired by cheep quad port 2.5G routers growing in performance and dropping in price, i acquired one. However, in my usage, since my lab got some public IP to work on, i setup pfsense to act as a transparent bridge running suricata for IDS. However, in order t connect my Pfsense box to network...

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I am planning on making a homelab using older business mini towers as the servers to run services. The goals are to self-host everything, have 10 gig and learn. My infrastructure layout was a machine for each of these functions: dns, router, nas, IoT server, game server, and mail/web server. I...

I posted this on r/homelabsales and figured I'd throw it here as well. I recently decom'd some gear and am unloading what I can to fund the Dell MX7000 lab project. Prices shown below are negotiable and shipping to the lower 48 states is dependent on the category of item, as detailed below...

Trying to get them basics straight. This is my first "pro" job where I control everything :cool: Setting up a brand new network for my firms office, 120 square meters, mostly open plan, about 6-8 people in place. The only equipment is a standard Fiberbox and a default ISP modem that can't...

(This request is complete) Budget: $150 USD I need someone to walk me through the following: I am on a residential cable connection (Charter) and have not been able to configure IPv6 properly. I need some troubleshooting help here. More importantly, I would like to route traffic from an Apple...

Getting rid of some miscellaneous equipment, let me know if you have any questions. 1. Mellanox ConnectX-6 CX653105A single port 100GBE QSFP28 PCIe 3.0 x16 - sold on eBay 2. Two Mellanox ConnectX-4 CX455A single port 100GBE QSFP28 PCIe 3.0 x16 cards with two CWDM4 LC transceivers - sold on...

Dear all, I have been following the STH Youtube channel for some time, but this is my first post in the Forum. I am currently planning the renovation of the network infrastructure of a local non-profit radio station in Portugal and, since I’m just a student and hobbyist, it would be very...

I want to fool around with 10G networking, so I've been looking for cheap 10G adapters with the lowest possible power consumption. So far the cheapest ones I've found were the HP 530SFP+ and HP NC550SFP. I've read some random posts saying these HP adapters are a nightmare outside of HP servers...

I ran `iperf3` between two Windows machines and noticed that the speeds were not symmetric. I tested using both the built-in 1-gigabit Ethernet adapters in each machine as well as with 10-gigabit Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards in both machines. Here's the relevant output. I address the 10-gigabit...

I am trying to build out my home network, my goals are high availability and resiliency. I plan to run a Docker Swarm, one docker host on each of my VM servers and one in the DigitalOcean cloud and point all my traffic through a Nginx Proxy Manager on my Docker Swarm. My issue is I have a ton of...