| 5 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | Usually the case yeah | 15:28:06 |
 emily | feel like I've fallen down enough of a rabbit hole already for now :) | 15:28:08 |
| K900 | Though Mikrotik hardware is also fairly commodity | 15:28:13 |
| emily | what kind of switch chips do they put in them? | 15:28:44 |
| emily | I thought it was custom stuff but maybe I'm wrong | 15:28:54 |
| K900 | Usually Marvell or Realtek stuff | 15:29:58 |
| emily | hm. | 15:30:34 |
| emily | AIUI the Realtek chip that OpenWrt does can actually be operated by an external CPU | 15:30:52 |
| emily | as in it can be a SoC with a MIPS processor, but it can also just be a "dumb" switch that you have an ARM chip talking to or something. | 15:31:05 |
| emily | I believe that nobody has implemented support for that in OpenWrt/mainline, but if there's a MikroTik thing with an AArch64 CPU and that Realtek chip it could be interesting… | 15:31:29 |
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| 6 Jun 2025 |
 uep | rtl8367 seems to be the only realtek one they use recently | 01:45:32 |
| uep | there are some qualcomm (arm) and mediatek (mmips) ones with soc and small switch on the same chip | 01:46:23 |
| uep | everything that's a serious switch is marvell | 01:46:58 |
 hexa | (within the openwrt ecosystem) | 01:48:15 |
| emily | how can I find these things? when I go to https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=network and sort by SFP+s, very little shows up. I've seen that other listings don't have stuff in that field but searching SFP in the net comments also doesn't turn up much | 13:24:59 |
| emily | I'm interested in everything OpenWrt can run that has more than a handful of 10 Gbit/s SFP+ | 13:25:21 |
| emily | https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/hardware/soc/soc.marvell mostly talks about GbE (I guess the page seems fairly old) | 13:26:09 |
| emily | so far I haven't been able to find clear records of OpenWrt support for anything between the XikeStor with the Realtek chip (8× SFP+) and the Mellanox monsters (a billion × QSFP) | 13:27:36 |
| emily | which I'm sure is a failure of my own searching, but you seem to know more about this than me, so… :) | 13:27:47 |
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| uep | Err, I was responding about mikrotik when I said "they", sorry that wasn't clear. | 23:41:33 |
| 7 Jun 2025 |
| hexa | netdev 0x19 videos are up https://netdevconf.info/0x19/pages/sessions.html | 00:20:52 |
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| 8 Jun 2025 |
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| K900 | @emily did your 320mhz change get merged | 17:45:59 |
| emily | no response yet | 18:59:08 |
| emily | it was only for GB though | 18:59:14 |
