Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-04-02 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 29, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Moshe Katz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Paul Mather > wrote: > >> On Mar 27, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: >> >> Many thanks for the information and advice. It is much appreciated.

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-29 Thread Moshe Katz
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Paul Mather wrote: > On Mar 27, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: > > Many thanks for the information and advice. It is much appreciated. > > > According to the specs that I found on HP's website, your HP switch does

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 27, 2018, at 8:47 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote: > I agree with everything my brother said except recommending the Uniquiti > EdgeSwitch. > We have seen a few instances of the EdgeSwitch locking up without any > apparent reason (once we traced it to a thermal issue, but we

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 27, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: Many thanks for the information and advice. It is much appreciated. > According to the specs that I found on HP's website, your HP switch does > not support 10Gb, only 1Gb on its mini-GBIC ports. You will definitely need > a new

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-27 Thread Yehuda Katz
I agree with everything my brother said except recommending the Uniquiti EdgeSwitch. We have seen a few instances of the EdgeSwitch locking up without any apparent reason (once we traced it to a thermal issue, but we couldn't find a cause for the others). The EdgeSwitch also only has a 1 year

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-27 Thread Moshe Katz
Note: that should say CAT*6*A, not *7*. Other than that, no changes. -- Moshe Katz -- mo...@ymkatz.net -- +1(301)867-3732 On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: > According to the specs that I found on HP's website, your HP switch does > not support 10Gb, only 1Gb

Re: [pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-27 Thread Moshe Katz
According to the specs that I found on HP's website, your HP switch does not support 10Gb, only 1Gb on its mini-GBIC ports. You will definitely need a new switch to take advantage of 10Gb. If you do get a switch that supports 10GBase-T, you should definitely consider the Intel X540. The vast

[pfSense] 10GBASE-T hardware

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Mather
A 10GBASE-T port became available to us in our server rack. The rack currently has a 20-node Hadoop cluster, each node having dual Intel i350 1000BASE-T NICs. The Hadoop nodes connect to an old HP 2910al-48G 48-port GbE switch that, in turn, connects to an old Dell R310 server running pfSense