| 22 May 2025 |
 emily | and some of the switches using them can use vanilla kernels, cf. https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-linux-hacking-switchdev | 15:46:21 |
| emily | so there may be better options that avoid MIPS | 15:46:37 |
 matthewcroughan | Mellanox SN2010 is 7K | 15:47:36 |
| matthewcroughan | Redacted or Malformed Event | 15:47:41 |
| matthewcroughan | ah crap for got | 15:47:46 |
| matthewcroughan | * ah crap forgor | 15:47:49 |
| emily | much less second hand, but obviously I wasn't recommending actually buying a 100G switch | 15:55:12 |
| emily | I'm saying that there are things that can trivially run vanilla Linux with the upstream DSA/switchdev drivers and involve no MIPS | 15:55:35 |
| emily | so there may be an option that does not require the OpenWrt Realtek stuff | 15:55:47 |
| emily | though it's being upstreamed anyway | 15:55:50 |
| emily | it's just the MIPS and tiny flash that make it annoying, because otherwise you could just run NixOS | 15:55:59 |
| matthewcroughan | TL-ST1008F is the best, but costs the most simply because ti is rare | 16:05:56 |
| matthewcroughan | * TL-ST1008F is the best, but costs the most simply because it is rare | 16:06:00 |
| matthewcroughan | It's incredible that there are only two on the market don't you think emily | 16:21:22 |
| matthewcroughan | do you think someone bought all the stock, and is now selling it back to us? | 16:21:33 |
| matthewcroughan | this stuff used to be on amazon, and now it is not | 16:21:43 |
| matthewcroughan | TP-LINK TL-ST1008F and the XikeStor stuff, but not much else with this performance | 16:22:14 |
| matthewcroughan | the YuanLey and Vimin stuff is good, but nobody has even tried to touch them | 16:22:31 |
| emily | I'll probably get the 12 port xikestor of the mips stuff but I'm hoping to find a cheapish upgrade that gets away from MIPS and towards mainline kernels | 18:23:05 |
| emily | anyway it looks like I can plausibly run fibre drops to every room via disused phone sockets | 18:23:35 |
| emily | so that's exciting | 18:23:38 |
| emily | unfortunately I know nothing about fibre and need someone to teach me what all the words mean | 18:23:59 |
 toonn | What's so bad about MIPS? | 18:29:38 |
| emily | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
What's so bad about MIPS? NixOS does not officially support it | 18:31:02 |
 raitobezarius | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
much less second hand, but obviously I wasn't recommending actually buying a 100G switch oops too late | 18:34:16 |
| emily | well I'm not saying I don't want one | 18:38:10 |
| raitobezarius | i can give ssh once i'm done with it | 18:38:32 |
| emily | does the 100G go over SSH? | 18:38:46 |
| emily | can I download the bandwidth? | 18:38:52 |
| raitobezarius | :DDDDDDDD | 18:38:55 |
