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| 5 May 2026 |
Andy Hamon | I stumbled upon https://docs.dent.dev/ and their hardware table: https://dent.dev/ecosystem/hardware-compatibility/
the "48x1G PoE + 4x10G SFP" Delta switch mentioned is a Delta TN48M-P
Claude seemed to think that most of the hardware support is fully upstreamed in the linux kernel.
Bought one, and i got stock aarch64 nixos booting cleanly, linux kernel 7! And the prestera driver loads, all switch ports appear in ip link. All i had to was build a device tree for it (which claude made short work of, based on the device tree from the dentos project).
I am super pelases, as my mikrotik poe switch is one of the only things in my network rack that doesn't run nixos.
| 01:12:38 |
Andy Hamon | Anyways, thought I'd share here, in case there are others who have been on the prowl for a network switch that can run nixos. | 01:13:30 |
Andy Hamon | * I stumbled upon https://docs.dent.dev/ and their hardware table: https://dent.dev/ecosystem/hardware-compatibility/
the "48x1G PoE + 4x10G SFP" Delta switch mentioned is a Delta TN48M-P
Claude seemed to think that most of the hardware support is fully upstreamed in the linux kernel.
Bought one, and i got stock aarch64 nixos booting cleanly, linux kernel 7! And the prestera driver loads, all switch ports appear in ip link. All i had to do was build a device tree for it (which claude made short work of, based on the device tree from the dentos project).
I am super pelases, as my mikrotik poe switch is one of the only things in my network rack that doesn't run nixos.
| 01:14:09 |
Andy Hamon | * I stumbled upon https://docs.dent.dev/ and their hardware table: https://dent.dev/ecosystem/hardware-compatibility/
the "48x1G PoE + 4x10G SFP" Delta switch mentioned is a Delta TN48M-P
Claude seemed to think that most of the hardware support is fully upstreamed in the linux kernel.
Bought one, and i got stock aarch64 nixos booting cleanly, linux kernel 7! And the prestera driver loads, all switch ports appear in ip link. All i had to do was build a device tree for it (which claude made short work of, based on the device tree from the dentos project).
I am super pelased, as my mikrotik poe switch is one of the only things in my network rack that doesn't run nixos.
| 01:14:31 |
Andy Hamon | * I stumbled upon https://docs.dent.dev/ and their hardware table: https://dent.dev/ecosystem/hardware-compatibility/
the "48x1G PoE + 4x10G SFP" Delta switch mentioned is a Delta TN48M-P
Claude seemed to think that most of the hardware support is fully upstreamed in the linux kernel.
Bought one, and i got stock aarch64 nixos booting cleanly, linux kernel 7! And the prestera driver loads, all switch ports appear in ip link. All i had to do was build a device tree for it (which claude made short work of, based on the device tree from the dentos project) and make sure the right kernel modules get loaded.
I am super pleased, as my mikrotik poe switch is one of the only things in my network rack that doesn't run nixos.
| 01:15:45 |
Andy Hamon | oh and the non-poe version i can confirm is actually pretty quiet. poe one hasn't arrived yet. (yes i bought two lol) | 01:20:13 |
Andy Hamon | * oh and the non-poe version i can confirm is actually pretty quiet even before any fan mods. poe one hasn't arrived yet. (yes i bought two lol) | 01:21:18 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | they do sound like they eat energy for free | 01:41:41 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | anyway, 48x1G is not really interesting in 2026 | 01:42:22 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | recently played with https://novalinktrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SKS8300-12E2T2X.pdf | 01:43:32 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | but with openwrt | 01:43:36 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | 12x2.5 Gbps, 4x10Gbps (2 Copper, 2 SFP+) | 01:43:59 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | but sadly no PoE | 01:44:02 |
Andy Hamon | PoE is the main reason it is interesting me. If you remove PoE as a restriction then I agree there are more interesting options | 01:46:58 |
Andy Hamon | * PoE is the main reason it is interesting me. If you remove PoE as a constraint then I agree there are more interesting options | 01:47:05 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | yeah, but even with PoE I'd want ports with more than 1G ideally | 01:47:23 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | modern access points exceed 1G | 01:47:48 |
Andy Hamon | 1gig wifi is enough for anybody | 01:48:15 |
hexa (clat on linux when) | I'd be fine with a limited number of PoE ports even :D | 01:48:19 |
magic_rb | oooo that one can do openwrt | 09:32:01 |
magic_rb | 🤤 i have the 8x10g version | 09:32:11 |
magic_rb | (which can also do wowrt) | 09:32:54 |