| 21 May 2025 |
 K900 | Have you considered just running 2.5G or something | 11:01:03 |
 magic_rb | In reply to @matthewcroughan:defenestrate.it
magic_rb: https://www.amazon.co.uk/OWC-Thunderbolt-Ethernet-Adapter-OWCTB3ADP10GBE/dp/B07K7SMF89 Yes and this is not in a laptop, at which point do sfp to sfp | 11:01:06 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.zone | K900: TBH yes, maybe we should just not | 11:01:12 |
| K900 | It's not like you can feed all the 10G connections from a bpi-r4 anyway | 11:01:16 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | instead.. a usb c powered thunderbolt ring network might make more sense | 11:01:23 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | then we can just use a USB C cable to the wall, and media convert this to LC and do 10G this way | 11:01:49 |
| K900 | I have never heard the words "usb c powered thunderbolt ring network" and "make sense" in the same sentence and I hope I never will | 11:01:55 |
| magic_rb | Do you know how insecure thunderbolt is? | 11:02:25 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | People are interconnecting their m4 macs via thunderbolt, and achieving 40gbps between them | 11:02:27 |
| magic_rb | I would never plug my laptop into a "thunderbolt that goes into the wall" | 11:02:41 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | https://forum.level1techs.com/t/thunderbolt-4-based-ring-network-between-intel-nucs-for-ceph-storage-on-proxmox/195285 | 11:02:54 |
| K900 | Here's an idea | 11:02:57 |
| K900 | Just don't | 11:03:01 |
| magic_rb | In reply to @matthewcroughan:defenestrate.it
People are interconnecting their m4 macs via thunderbolt, and achieving 40gbps between them Yes and its horrendously insecure, at least on linux | 11:03:05 |
| K900 | You are trying to come up with something "cool" | 11:03:09 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | well yeah, dma | 11:03:11 |
| K900 | Instead of trying to do the reasonable thing | 11:03:15 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | what is the reasonable thing | 11:03:20 |
| K900 | 2.5G copper | 11:03:26 |
| K900 | If not 1G | 11:03:33 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I just want to achieve the highest bandwidth setup instead of installing old 1G infra | 11:03:42 |
| K900 | What you want is rice | 11:03:50 |
| K900 | 1G is enough for most practical purposes | 11:04:01 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | the plastic costs the same, I might as well make a decision to install the latest fastest thing | 11:04:06 |
| K900 | If you want to rice it, heck, run multimode fiber | 11:04:10 |
| K900 | You can do 400G | 11:04:14 |
| K900 | Or have you considered infiniband | 11:04:19 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | true tbh, though I consider that a bit overkill | 11:04:32 |
| K900 | You can buy infiniband to USB4 adapters | 11:04:43 |
| magic_rb | What i think is fine, is running 10gig in your home, point to point fiber | 11:05:06 |
