So it seems that I've found yet another rabbit hole to fall into care of STH!
This time my home network is getting a workover. I've already got the pfSense box. A pair of R500 access points are showing up today and I bought a cheap Mokerlink PoE unmanaged switch before I ran into this thread. As it turns out, I've also been moving a bunch of data between my main PC and my NAS recently and the single 1G link that it's currently connected to the network with is becomming a real annoyance.
Sooo...a cheap(ish), quiet box that does PoE and has at least two 10G SFP+ ports would be perfect.
Other than it being a little more than I was hoping to spend, the ICX7150-C12P seems to be it. =) But the ICX6450 is intriguing, especially if it comes around at $100 + shipping often enough, since it's got 2 extra 10G ports.
Two quick questions though, since I haven't be able to read the entire thread yet and either I'm incompetent with`search' or it's not mentioned:
- On the switches with Broadcom ASICs (ICX7150/ICX7250), is `bshell' available? Maybe through the console/debug terminal?
- I saw mention of what Marvell chip was in the ICX6450 as the CPU (although I can't find that again either!), but what switching ASIC is it using? I've seen mention of Prestera for the FCX line, but not the ICX6xxx?