I've been having a time, not a good time, but a time.
When I can back from vacation I would my Nortel 5520 had died. Much despair and weeping.
After some research I decided I would go with a Mikrotik CRS328 so I could use the sweet sweet 10GBe links I alread had installed in the server and my PC.
The mikrotik came in and it was a slow motion disaster. The 10GB trunk did not work as expected, and there was more wailing and despair.
After a weekend of aggravation, I removed the fiber trunk and went back to a copper trunk, and everything has been steady since Sunday morning.
If proxmox is configured to autostart the bridge ties to my mellanox Connectx-2, the service wont start. This lead me to look for a new driver and I'm finding all kinds of things about those being way too old and having weird vlan issues.
I got the networking service to restart by turning off VLAN aware in the bridge. So the link will probably work, but not as a trunk. More despair.
I think it's somewhat clear that I need a new 10gbe adapter for my server if I want to rock a 10GB link to the switch. Do you guys have recommendations that are absolutely gonna work? One nice fella in the homelab discord mentioned Intel X520-DA2.
Hardware used
When I can back from vacation I would my Nortel 5520 had died. Much despair and weeping.
After some research I decided I would go with a Mikrotik CRS328 so I could use the sweet sweet 10GBe links I alread had installed in the server and my PC.
The mikrotik came in and it was a slow motion disaster. The 10GB trunk did not work as expected, and there was more wailing and despair.
After a weekend of aggravation, I removed the fiber trunk and went back to a copper trunk, and everything has been steady since Sunday morning.
If proxmox is configured to autostart the bridge ties to my mellanox Connectx-2, the service wont start. This lead me to look for a new driver and I'm finding all kinds of things about those being way too old and having weird vlan issues.
I got the networking service to restart by turning off VLAN aware in the bridge. So the link will probably work, but not as a trunk. More despair.
I think it's somewhat clear that I need a new 10gbe adapter for my server if I want to rock a 10GB link to the switch. Do you guys have recommendations that are absolutely gonna work? One nice fella in the homelab discord mentioned Intel X520-DA2.
Hardware used
- Dell T6230 running Proxmox 5.2-5
- Mellanox Connectx-2
- Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL
- Mellanox Connectx-2
- CRS328-24P-4S+RM running SwOS 2.8
- Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL