| 27 May 2025 |
 uep | that will show you the difference between the CRS304 and CRS305 models for example | 10:14:24 |
| uep | (in the 305, the 1g port is also on the switch chip, in the 304 it's via cpu) | 10:14:58 |
| uep | * protip.. for all mikrotik products, look at the "block diagram" link (in the support & downloads section) | 10:15:54 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I guess I'll have two though | 10:18:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | since the bpi-r4 has tw | 10:18:47 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | * since the bpi-r4 has two | 10:18:49 |
 K900 | Then you'll just have two up ports and two down ports | 10:23:23 |
| K900 | And at that point why have a switch | 10:23:27 |
| uep | https://mikrotik.com/product/crs309_1g_8s_in in case you meant sfp+ ports after all.. this is the same as the 305 with 8 sfp+ (and a few nicer switch chip features for additional hw offload of l3 nat and fw) | 10:28:33 |
| uep | (I like this one because it's still passive cooling despite all that capacity, though you need to be careful about hot sfps) | 10:30:57 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Do you think it'll run FOSS one day? | 10:34:32 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | "Cloud Router Switch" | 10:34:47 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | 🙈 | 10:34:51 |
| uep | not readily. it's a linux kernel but mikrotik has opinions about what that actually means, and of course all the interesting stuff for a device like this is the control plane for the switch chip | 10:39:43 |
| uep | Mikrotik do one thing really well, though, and that's somehow have iike a hundred different products with every permutation of chip and cpu, that all work on the same software release and are supported for a very long time | 10:40:54 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I'm sadly just not interested unless it runs a kernel and software I can compile | 10:41:24 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I don't give in to anything else, to give in for a managed switch would just be embarassing | 10:41:47 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | it's clearly good hardware | 10:42:08 |
| uep | yeah, valid.. i gave in on that point a long time ago when the alternative was cisco or hp | 10:43:55 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Yeah, I don't see the point in giving in since I'm not doing some for-profit thing | 10:44:19 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | this is just for a hackspace network | 10:44:23 |
| uep | and i had a bunch of procurve switches for a long time that were very very noisy | 10:44:34 |
| uep | good riddance to that | 10:44:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | There are so many aliexpress 10G SFP+ switches | 10:51:35 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | surely one of them must have a FOSS OS | 10:51:59 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Tp-link tl-st1008f still looks like the best option | 10:52:46 |
 Tom | I currently see two devices in the OpenWrt Table of Hardware with more then two SFP+ Ports:
https://toh.openwrt.org/?columns=VIRT_edit,brand,model,version,cpu,cpucores,cpumhz,flashmb,rammb,sfp_plus_ports,wlan24ghz,wlan50ghz,wlan60ghz,wlan600ghz,detachableantennas,VIRT_firm,firmwareopenwrtinstallurl,firmwareopenwrtupgradeurl,devicepage,VIRT_hwdata,oemdevicehomepageurl,wikideviurl,owrt_forum_topic_url,picture
I can't say hoewer wheter those would be a good choice. And you must make sure to get the correct revision. Or a revision which is close enough so that you can get support going via a PR. | 10:53:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Oh that's a nice website I didn't know existed | 10:54:13 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Yeah it's either the XikeStor or the TP Link TL-st1008f | 10:55:30 |
| uep | i suspect the closest you'll get is something openflow.. with a fairly dumb embedded switch data plane, and offloading all the policy and control plane | 10:57:43 |
