nightshade00013
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So I am going to see if I can't get rid of the network bottleneck for my FreeNAS and desktop.
Here is what I am looking at doing:
Grab 4 Mellanox ConnectX-2 NIC's
Put one in my desktop, put one in my FreeNAS and put two into my OPNsense box and bridge my LAN connection with the two Mellanox cards so I do not need to pick up a switch for now. I know this can theoretically be slower than an actual switch but later on my plan is to get a switch and still have a spare Mellanox NIC for something else and the bottleneck will be shifted from my 1GB NIC's to the pool in my FreeNAS. And my router Should have more than enough power to handle this with a dual Xeon L5630 set of CPU's and 8GB of ECC ram which I can double if needed as I have two more sticks of ECC ram sitting around.
Anyway I found a place with cables and transceivers and want to know if they will work correctly (or theoretically so) before I pull the trigger on it.
https://www.fs.com/products/11589.html Transceiver
https://www.fs.com/products/41735.html Cable
My main question is the transceiver compatibility, from what I read the Mellanox cards will work with pretty much anything but they do have transceivers that are compatible with particular brands.
Anyway comments on the setup would also be good. I do know that I could just buy two and run a link between my FreeNAS and my desktop but I do plan to expand my 10G hardware over time so having the card in my router will just be another learning experience and I can always run a single line direct if I can't get something to work.
Here is what I am looking at doing:
Grab 4 Mellanox ConnectX-2 NIC's
Put one in my desktop, put one in my FreeNAS and put two into my OPNsense box and bridge my LAN connection with the two Mellanox cards so I do not need to pick up a switch for now. I know this can theoretically be slower than an actual switch but later on my plan is to get a switch and still have a spare Mellanox NIC for something else and the bottleneck will be shifted from my 1GB NIC's to the pool in my FreeNAS. And my router Should have more than enough power to handle this with a dual Xeon L5630 set of CPU's and 8GB of ECC ram which I can double if needed as I have two more sticks of ECC ram sitting around.
Anyway I found a place with cables and transceivers and want to know if they will work correctly (or theoretically so) before I pull the trigger on it.
https://www.fs.com/products/11589.html Transceiver
https://www.fs.com/products/41735.html Cable
My main question is the transceiver compatibility, from what I read the Mellanox cards will work with pretty much anything but they do have transceivers that are compatible with particular brands.
Anyway comments on the setup would also be good. I do know that I could just buy two and run a link between my FreeNAS and my desktop but I do plan to expand my 10G hardware over time so having the card in my router will just be another learning experience and I can always run a single line direct if I can't get something to work.