Hello,
I am kind of disappointed by the price/value relation of TB4 docks that do not even meet my requirements(eg. 10GE networking) and I do not want to stack a dock with additional adapters. So I was thinking of using a small debian server as a dock/host. Maybe even add some KVM functionality.
As far as I understand (no hands-on experience as of yet):
- There are USB4 cards that even provide PowerDelivery to the connected device. (GC-Maple Ridge, Asus USB4 Pcie card...). Or maybe inject power to an existing USB4 output on the server mainboard?
- Providing networking should be a simple task with `thunderbolt-net`
- display output seems to be limited to the "eGPU" in the server, via PCIe tunnelling, cannot output clients iGPU on ports attached to the host
- I assume audio output would be the same as display
Do you have any comments on this idea? I am fairly confident with the linux-side, but will I run into any problems from the windows or macOS client side?
I am kind of disappointed by the price/value relation of TB4 docks that do not even meet my requirements(eg. 10GE networking) and I do not want to stack a dock with additional adapters. So I was thinking of using a small debian server as a dock/host. Maybe even add some KVM functionality.
As far as I understand (no hands-on experience as of yet):
- There are USB4 cards that even provide PowerDelivery to the connected device. (GC-Maple Ridge, Asus USB4 Pcie card...). Or maybe inject power to an existing USB4 output on the server mainboard?
- Providing networking should be a simple task with `thunderbolt-net`
- display output seems to be limited to the "eGPU" in the server, via PCIe tunnelling, cannot output clients iGPU on ports attached to the host
- I assume audio output would be the same as display
Do you have any comments on this idea? I am fairly confident with the linux-side, but will I run into any problems from the windows or macOS client side?
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