Hello Kevin, Sunday, January 15, 2017, 1:03:16 PM, you wrote:
> Intel is overpriced and still riding their Ethernet reputation from well > over a decade ago with little to show for it. I would recommend cxgbe > anything, so Chelsio T420 and up. The T520-SO-CR is within reason for > demanding home office/small office users to purchase new and I've deployed > over a thousand of these at work with flawless performance. T420 are a bit > cheaper on i.e. US ebay if that is viable to you but not by too much. I > bought a T420-BT that way for home use and have no complaints. Looks like our views of term "budget" is very different :). If I could spend $200+/card then it would be noo-rainer. > You can use DAC twinax cables to connect 10G SFP+ ports together. This > will save several watts of power and heat on each side vs 10G Base-T. Twinax is not what I could fit in my old house's (not datacenter!) cable ducts :( And new cable ducts means a LOT of dusty work (reinforced concrete walls) & new wallpapers & stuff. -- Best regards, Lev mailto:l...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
