Very good deal.
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My experience is limited here, seems to be just a marketing way to claim L3 while delivering only a subset of full L3 functionality. I don’t think “lite” is an actual standard though, so I’m sure the included features are going to vary from device to device.
I have a cheap Marvell based 10g switch that claims it’s “managed” and “L3” but it’s missing a LOT of features.
My older Cisco SG300s were often referred to as “Lite L3” (not by Cisco of course
). They have an “L3 mode”. But smaller routing tables, no dynamic routing or dynamic VLAN, limited DNS and NAT features, etc. Most of the management is from the web interface and the command line is super limited.They all do fine for my house and the homelab though. So LIte works for me.
Of course, they could just be L2 like @neptun0- says
I have the unmanaged version of this which has been running fine except for earlier today. We had a power outage today and when power was restored, every switch, router and computer came back up except for the 10G ports in this one and the switch had to be power cycled.
I use Active Optical Cables for 10G and replugging them was not sufficient to bring the connections back up in case that is relevant
I use Active Optical Cables for 10G and replugging them was not sufficient to bring the connections back up in case that is relevant
These "Lite-managed" switches typically don't run Linux, but rather have an 8051 core in the switch chip that provides a very basic HTTP interface where you can configure a limited number of VLANs. The 1990s style basic HTML management interface UI is a dead giveaway:
They're strictly L2 switches.
Personally, I am not a fan of these switches since custom firmwares are typically a hack job on the original closed-source firmware, and you have no way to know if there is a backdoor.
Check out models [Switches] if you want a good list of switches which can have (but not necessarily have) OpenWrt support.
They're strictly L2 switches.
Personally, I am not a fan of these switches since custom firmwares are typically a hack job on the original closed-source firmware, and you have no way to know if there is a backdoor.
Check out models [Switches] if you want a good list of switches which can have (but not necessarily have) OpenWrt support.
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I looked quickly at the Link but frankly you have a hard Time beating the SKS8300-8X.
The Mixed 2.5G/10G SKS7300-8GPY4XGS is just incredibly expensive (> 200 EUR) when you can get the pure 10G SKS8300-8X (ONTI Version) for like 85-90 EUR. Although I think that the SKS8300-8X is mainly/only L2, I wouldn't be so sure that any other is really L2+/L3/whatever with Software that is half baked anyways.
Yes you only get SFP+, but unless you have built-in 2.5G NIC (I only have 1 System where that is the Case), then I don't see why you wouldn't just use SFP+ to be honest.
POE/POE+ is of course a different Matter
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