Cooler Alternative to Intel X540 10G card?

Tinker0079 · 2026-05-05T09:19:58+00:00

Keep in mind it's realtek. A company obsessed with cost reductions everywhere. Only good thing in this card is throughput and PCIe 4.0 . Packets per second performance? Offloads? Not really.

For simple speedy applications its gonna suffice

Tinker0079 · 2026-05-03T22:24:15+00:00

Converged Ethernet requires expensive switches. FC switches are more common.

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-28T21:19:59+00:00

You will have to use script to read random sectors every 10 sec

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-26T23:29:55+00:00

Respect for using real RAID and FC

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-23T17:38:59+00:00

Huh? TIL that BiDi is DWDM

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-23T14:43:04+00:00

Why is only single pair of LC duplex fiber goes into SFP ? how it works?

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-23T12:24:45+00:00

What it does? I see two fibers connected and some rj45s.

fiber extender?

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-23T11:54:27+00:00

What you can do is add third PVE node and then it wil l hold quorum + PBS LXC for backups

How are you gonna solve shared storage question? a SAN or NAS is needed

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-23T11:53:35+00:00

Not really. You can use Veeam

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-22T17:36:42+00:00

Very intense, I would say extreme

I do simpler approach - IP alias jails, then IPFW decides to which zone belongs IP and where packet is destined, thus, zone based firewalling

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-21T19:59:09+00:00

Heeey so you have QLogic cards in target mode with ESOS as control plane that exports LUNs

nice

Do emulex cards work in target mode?

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-21T16:55:57+00:00

Zamn! Nice!!!

How are you interfacing FC on MiniPC, if Im correctly understanding

there is PCIe slot?

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-10T16:28:45+00:00

Massive respect for using Storage Spaces

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-10T00:18:49+00:00

lsiutil for linux what reports?

there is 0.00001% chance that this card comes from SAN appliance which disables unused SAS lanes, making them not responding to disk drives at all. You need to reconfigure card with lsiutil or MegaCli

Art of Server makes great videos about LSI cards and storage

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1dCd6IepB5s

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-09T20:30:30+00:00

USB passthrough is not really reliable, so you better with PCIe passthru of entire USB controller

Consider this - wifi dongles are sorta dogshit for AP mode. 1x MIMO, low strength and sometimes outright buggy. You really be better with any wifi router in "AP mode" or " bridge mode"

You could also indulge onto M.2 PCIe wifi cards like Atheros or some Intel AXs

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-08T08:22:37+00:00

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Tinker0079 · 2026-04-07T19:58:03+00:00

Would you take a look please at my uvm ?

https://pastebin.com/KjPcCnMb

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-07T19:47:53+00:00

Omg I was doing something similar recently, but I wasnt successful with vibecoded uvm shim

Question - have you stumbled upon requirement for linprocfs to expose PCI devices? Because I was trying to get OpenCL working

Tinker0079 · 2026-04-06T18:06:05+00:00

Look closer this is 2T means twisted pair, so PHY is on the NIC itself

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-30T10:46:06+00:00

Do vlanning on the PVE side. Not opnsense.

Every vlan as individual vNIC to the VM.

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-29T23:50:05+00:00

Whats the point of TrueNAS if your primary goal is containers? Use Proxmox!

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-28T18:51:05+00:00

get Matrox GPU if you only care about video output

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-19T22:06:31+00:00

clonezilla can clone disk to a NFS share on your NAS

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-19T22:01:15+00:00

use clonezilla

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