Quad 10GB SFP+ nic for $20

[nutsnax]

Ran into this looking for something that would both fit in and catch on fire my HP T740 so it seemed like a good deal. Quad 10 gig for $20 seems pretty awesome to me.

edit: Forgot to mention that the guy does quantity discounting if you buy more.

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[NablaSquaredG]

Can you confirm which chip it uses?

My google foo says Emulex?

 

[nutsnax]

Can you confirm which chip it uses?

My google foo says Emulex?

It is indeed Emulex - it's in one of the pics on the PCB.

 

[jmsq]

Anyone know what linux driver this uses?

 

[macdaddybighorn]

Edit: I might have mixed up my part numbers, nevermind, but I have found quad 10G IBM Emulex cards full of SFP+ modules for $25 before and they work very well.

 

[louie1961]

Emulex? Do these work with FreeBSD/pfSense?

 

[jbv1982]

It’s an Emulex card, and from Googling around there are a fair amount of people who have purchased a similar card and it seems like getting the right firmware on it and getting it working in Linux or Windows is a huge pain.
The original IBM manual makes it seem like this came out of a POWER server.

 

[macdaddybighorn]

Emulex? Do these work with FreeBSD/pfSense?

Yes, I used a similar card for years with pfSense (and my server) and it worked great. It supported more features than my Intel based NIC also.

It’s an Emulex card, and from Googling around there are a fair amount of people who have purchased a similar card and it seems like getting the right firmware on it and getting it working in Linux or Windows is a huge pain.
The original IBM manual makes it seem like this came out of a POWER server.

This was not my experience when I used a similar Emulex IBM card, it was plug and play. I have had one issue with an Emulex NICs, but it was an HP NC550SFP+ and it was very cheap and really old firmware that was surely more to do with HP than anything.

 

[NachoCDN]

anyone know if these will work with esxi 8? might be interesting for a vcf lab

 

[louie1961]

I got this card today. It draws about 10 watts and it works in pfSense straight away with no added drivers needed. So far I really like it. Well worth the $20

 

[luckylinux]

I got this card today. It draws about 10 watts and it works in pfSense straight away with no added drivers needed. So far I really like it. Well worth the $20

Does ASPM work ? I'd be mainly interested in GNU/Linux Testing though. Yes, it will be used for Pfsense, but most likely through Linux Bridge in Proxmox VE.

 

[louie1961]

The motherboard I am using doesn't seem to have bios support for ASPM, so I don't know.

 

[Greg_E]

Half height brackets?

 

[NachoCDN]

what are the card temps like? looks like a card for a high airflow environment

I got this card today. It draws about 10 watts and it works in pfSense straight away with no added drivers needed. So far I really like it. Well worth the $20

 

[louie1961]

OK, dumb question, but other than an IR thermometer that I can point at this thing, how would I do that in pfSense?

 

[louie1961]

Half height brackets?

It did not come with a half height bracket, but I think installing one would be fairly easy. It seems to have standard screw placements on the bracket

 

[Greg_E]

OK, dumb question, but other than an IR thermometer that I can point at this thing, how would I do that in pfSense?

Looks like ethtool can do this, but I don't remember the BSD version of this tool to try from a cli.

Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers with ethtool | Cumulus Linux 5.9

docs.nvidia.com

 

[nasbdh9]

Emulex CNA, based on Skyhawk chip

linux config:
BE2NET_SKYHAWK

 

[EasyRhino]

anyone know if these will work with esxi 8? might be interesting for a vcf lab

I have an incredibly ancient emulex adapter that still works fine on esxi 8, even though it's officially been deprecated in esxi 7 or earlier. it's the OCE11102 from here:
(97) Beware - Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II x8 PCI-E slot | ServeTheHome Forums

So I would hope this would work.

 

[NachoCDN]

this site is working hard to empty my wallet!