| 8 Jul 2025 |
 hexa | copper sfps are too expensive for that 😄 | 13:21:30 |
 adamcstephens | In my understanding they also draw significantly more power | 13:22:11 |
| hexa | more than specced for the port, yeah | 13:22:30 |
| hexa | otoh dacs tend to use less power than a copper link for some reason I don't grok | 13:22:54 |
| hexa | the new double port 10Gbase-T card from intel still uses 5.7W with both ports up | 13:24:29 |
| hexa | and an SFP+ module usually eats less than a Watt | 13:24:41 |
| hexa | at least up to and including LR optics | 13:25:16 |
| hexa | so for anything >5Gbps just use SFP+/SFP28 if you can 🤷 | 13:25:51 |
 magic_rb | A 1gig sfp+ module cant eat that much | 13:27:32 |
 emily | AIUI it's because the range is much less | 13:28:18 |
| emily | like 8P8C would be a lot simpler if it could only go up to 7 m | 13:29:00 |
| emily | instead of 100 | 13:29:05 |
| hexa | 1gig is just "sfp", and we're not talking about 1gbps links, just use copper for those as needed | 13:29:19 |
| emily | personally I just want 8+ 10 Gbit/s SFP+ right now | 13:29:41 |
| hexa | well, that's probably easier to get than a mix of multi-gig ports, poe and spf+ uplink ports | 13:30:25 |
 Tom | https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/39b9b491bb585ba6c16dfc28e5dd0316c8fe7b0d
This one was added quite recently. | 14:41:23 |
| adamcstephens | I use a Brocade ICX 7250 in my homelab. It's not hackable Linux switch, but it has copper, 8x10Gb and has been quite reliable :) | 14:48:16 |
| adamcstephens | * I use a Brocade ICX 7250 in my homelab. It's not hackable Linux switch, but it has copper, 8x10Gb, POE and has been quite reliable :) | 14:48:23 |
| hexa | Rucks* 😛 | 14:49:26 |
| hexa | * Ruckus* 😛 | 14:49:29 |
| hexa | stacking density up to 12 switches and 576 ports, yeah that sounds like me | 14:50:04 |
| adamcstephens | yeah, but still says Brocade on the switch ;) | 14:51:01 |
| adamcstephens | I only have one, a 48 port | 14:51:22 |
| hexa | how much watt does it eat? | 14:51:33 |
| hexa | we pay for power in germany, you know 😄 | 14:51:40 |
| adamcstephens | Which is overkill on copper for me now | 14:51:42 |
| adamcstephens | I've not measured what it's drawing | 14:51:55 |
| hexa | can't have the switch at home draw 100W for example 😄 | 14:52:17 |
| hexa | that wouold be bonkers | 14:52:23 |
| adamcstephens | I pay for power as well, just much less per KWh than you do | 14:52:38 |
