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Re:The Cheap 2.5GbE Poe Unmanaged Switch (2022) by oaiey on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:17AM (#33129963)
They lost me at unmanaged. For fun but also practical. When you have a workload with more than 1GB throughput, planning your network is a thing. And then having an unmanaged thingy is just not appealing.
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Re:The Cheap 2.5GbE Poe Unmanaged Switch (2022) by oliv3r on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:21AM (#33130704)
The thing is, these switches can be running full-blown OpenWRT :)

First the disclaimer, very much work in progress (WIP)! Don't YET expect everything to work! 10/100Mbit is not working, SFP+ is experimental and the code base is a bit of a mess (but far better then the SDK).

Anyway, https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-rtl838x-based-manage... is the forum thread talking about these switches, https://svanheule.net/switches/ is the wiki.

Lots of help is still needed, even if it is just doing teardowns with photo's and help in learning stuff. Full GPL source is available though.

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