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8gb/8gb hardware?

yfuser2024

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Just wondered what hardware you guys are using on the 8gb plan?

I'm on the 2gb service with pfsense and 2.5gb lan but I'm keen to know what hardware I could consider for the 8gb service. Would prefer to use my own hardware/software if possible.

Thanks
 
You can use pfSense for it still. I've done testing at home and it can route 25Gb no problem (WAN to LAN). Depending on the hardware you're using you may need to upgrade to a different system but even something from 2015 can handle 8Gb without packet inspection or VPN overhead.

What hardware are you using currently? :)
 
You can use pfSense for it still. I've done testing at home and it can route 25Gb no problem (WAN to LAN). Depending on the hardware you're using you may need to upgrade to a different system but even something from 2015 can handle 8Gb without packet inspection or VPN overhead.

What hardware are you using currently? :)
It's a small fanless unit with no expansion options with 2.5gb lan ports. No good for 8gb yf. I was thinking of using my old pc being an i9 and fit a intel dual 10gb nic perhaps...
 
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It's a small fanless unit with no expansion options with 2.5gb lan ports. No good for 8gb yf. I was thinking of using my old pc being an i9 and fit a intel dual 10gb nic perhaps...

That will work fine yeah. Will be energy inefficient though but maybe that doesn't matter to you. Throw in a 10Gb network card such as:

X540-T2 = Dual 10Gb
X550-T2 = Dual 10Gb (also supports 2.5Gb and 5Gb)

You can get that first card on eBay for around £35-£40. You can get that second card for around £75-£99. Both cards work natively in pfSense and OPNsense at all their supported speeds.
 
That will work fine yeah. Will be energy inefficient though but maybe that doesn't matter to you. Throw in a 10Gb network card such as:

X540-T2 = Dual 10Gb
X550-T2 = Dual 10Gb (also supports 2.5Gb and 5Gb)

You can get that first card on eBay for around £35-£40. You can get that second card for around £75-£99. Both cards work natively in pfSense and OPNsense at all their supported speeds.
Thank you. Plenty to consider...
Enjoy a project
 
The router YF provide will handle it fine.

The ones I've used other than that are a Mikrotik CCR2116 and a Mikrotik CHR, their software router, running on a dual Xeon CPU ESXI machine and fed by 2 PCI passthrough ports of Intel E810-XXVAM2 NIC.

The next router as of right now will probably be hardware, Mikrotik CCR2216, due to future ONT requirements and the switch ports I have availabile. As you go higher the need for either ASIC or really specific software and hardware/driver combinations for full performance gets more acute.
 
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The UDM Pro / SE from Unifi will handle You8000 just fine. With some tweaks you can saturate the full 8Gbps.

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I've got a pair of almost identical network cabs - one in the house (UDM Pro, USW-24 POE and a USW-AGGREGATION for 10GbE backbone) and one in the garden-office-come-home-theatre which has a further pair of USW-24-POE and USW-AGGREGATION switches.

I ran 4 core OM4 fibre between the cabs for a 20GbE uplink (2x10Gbe LAG/bonded pair) linking the two USW-AGGREGATION switches, which handle all my 10GbE devices (currently 3x servers and 2x workstations, with uplinks to the gigabit switches).
 
The UDM Pro / SE from Unifi will handle You8000 just fine. With some tweaks you can saturate the full 8Gbps.

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I've got a pair of almost identical network cabs - one in the house (UDM Pro, USW-24 POE and a USW-AGGREGATION for 10GbE backbone) and one in the garden-office-come-home-theatre which has a further pair of USW-24-POE and USW-AGGREGATION switches.

I ran 4 core OM4 fibre between the cabs for a 20GbE uplink (2x10Gbe LAG/bonded pair) linking the two USW-AGGREGATION switches, which handle all my 10GbE devices (currently 3x servers and 2x workstations, with uplinks to the gigabit switches).
any pictures of your setup? :p
 
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any pictures of your setup? :p
Not at the minute, I've had to dismantle the cab in the house due to rearranging the walls in the bedrooms. Hoping that the bank holiday weekend will give me enough time to finish some bits off and get the cab wired back up!

I'm also waiting on delivery of a 32U rack to replace the 24U one down the home theatre/office as that's in a dire state at the minute and looks like a rats nest!

I'll get some pics once I'm less likely to be smited by the networking gods 😂
 
I settled on the SE. Its in and configured. No problem with my choice of sfp to rj45 module for my 10gb switch. Everything just worked out the box. Ipv6, ping charts etc. Overall I'm very pleased.

Will let it bed it now before upgrading from 2gb 👌
 
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