Quad 10GB SFP+ nic for $20

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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.

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IBM Power Feature 2CE3 00ND468 4 Port 10Gb SFP+ PCIe Full Height Network Adapter | eBay

Enhance your network connectivity with the IBM Feature 2CE3 00ND468 4 Port 10Gb PCI-e Network Adapter. This wired network card is compatible with IBM Power products and features SFP external interfaces for high-speed data transfer. With a maximum data rate of 10 Gbps, this unit provides reliable...
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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.
 
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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.
 
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louie1961 said:
Emulex? Do these work with FreeBSD/pfSense?
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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.

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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.
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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.
 
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anyone know if these will work with esxi 8? might be interesting for a vcf lab
 
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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
 
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louie1961 said:
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
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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.
 
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The motherboard I am using doesn't seem to have bios support for ASPM, so I don't know.
 
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NachoCDN

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

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