| 8 Jul 2025 |
 hexa | or buy one of the funny whitelabel switches that (used to) run cumulus linux | 13:03:44 |
| hexa | they come with onie, an installer environment that explicitly supports installing things to it | 13:04:35 |
| hexa | fun post wrt that https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking | 13:04:59 |
| hexa | the problem will of course be broadcom firmware/drivers in most scenarios 🤪 | 13:05:19 |
 Molly Miller | i was about to say, that trick only works if you have a kernel driver for the asic, right? | 13:05:34 |
| Molly Miller | i have a number of whitelabel onie switches at work but they're all broadcom asics | 13:05:47 |
| hexa | the alternative is something from mellanox, but those are sfp+/sfp28 and larger only iirc | 13:05:49 |
| hexa | yeah, the mellanox ones have mainline support | 13:06:03 |
| hexa | the broadcom ones are fckd | 13:06:13 |
 Emantor | Broadcom, more like: https://github.com/mwarning/chaos-sticker-collection/blob/9f0415d815bbef4a01bf55bc3fe57bb75e4247bd/images/brokencom/brokencom.svg#L4 | 13:06:24 |
| hexa | so no copper connections | 13:06:27 |
 emily | yeah I hadn't actually read them when I said that 😆 | 13:06:43 |
| emily | I just saw "managed" | 13:06:47 |
| hexa | though you can do dacs and copper sfps | 13:06:49 |
| Molly Miller | short of yanking the cumulus kernel sources package and switchd binary debs from the nvidia mirror and hacking something together | 13:06:55 |
| hexa | * though you can do dacs/aocs and copper sfps | 13:06:58 |
| Molly Miller | which, well, probably isn't really worth the effort | 13:07:18 |
| emily | I wish I could justify the price of the https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-linux-hacking-switchdev one | 13:07:42 |
| emily | I've looked at the OpenWrt switch support fairly recently but do you have a pointer to what new stuff they added? | 13:08:32 |
 magic_rb | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I've looked at the OpenWrt switch support fairly recently but do you have a pointer to what new stuff they added? Why not the one i found, the onti something something in ali | 13:09:13 |
| magic_rb | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I've looked at the OpenWrt switch support fairly recently but do you have a pointer to what new stuff they added? * | 13:09:20 |
| magic_rb | https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005005777395543.html | 13:09:35 |
| magic_rb | That ^ | 13:09:39 |
| Emantor | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I've looked at the OpenWrt switch support fairly recently but do you have a pointer to what new stuff they added? I tried to find some references, mostly remembered it from the OpenWRT GPN session, let me check… | 13:09:41 |
| emily | well I'm sort of hoping I might get lucky and there'll be something cheap that is not MIPS, because you certainly can't run full NixOS on MIPS. | 13:09:48 |
| magic_rb | Oh lol | 13:10:00 |
| magic_rb | You want nixos on it :P | 13:10:05 |
| magic_rb | Yeah no nixos for me on networking equipment, my flatmate is slightly allergic to nix | 13:10:27 |
| magic_rb | And our "but can it run nixos" attitude :) | 13:10:37 |
| Emantor | In reply to @emantor:stratum0.org
I tried to find some references, mostly remembered it from the OpenWRT GPN session, let me check… These look to be the rtl930x/rtl931x devices, but they are MIPS devices… | 13:12:57 |
