Kikusenko Firewall Micro Appliance, 6 Ports Inter N100 Quad Core Mini PC, Inter I226-V 2.5G NIC, Support AES-NI Router PC VPN Barebones, NO RAM NO SSD _________________ Optiplex 7060 with i7-8700, 32GB Ram, X710-T4L, R8125B four port, & an AQC113 M2 slot card. Self compiled OpenWRT 24.10.5. Also running an Adguard Home DNS server.
GL.iNET GL-BE9300 Flint 3 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL.iNET GL-MT6000 Flint 2 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL INET GL-BE3600 Slate 7 Travel Router with OpenWRT as a travel router
2 R7800's (DDWRT Build r60586) Not in use
3 R7000's (DDWRT build r62268) one used as a bridge
WRT54G-TM not in use
This would work better since it has the Intel 2.5Gbpe. It wouldn't work for me since I got 5 SATA HDD's directly connected to the system by SATA. I didn't want 5 loose drives in enclosures and having to unplug them and plug them back in at every reboot so they are ready to be accessed.
Is there a 4 or 5 or even 6 Intel based PCI-E card I could get instead since our Realtek 8125B cards are being ignored by the Dev's for the last 3 months now?
There is a 4 port i226 card on Amazon, link below. I ended up finding a way to compile my own OpenWRT with custom disk size and all the packages I want preinstalled including the 8125 driver. It is working great. Being a Linux dummy, I have been trying to figure out how to do it for a long time and finally stumbled onto how to do it using Windows WSL ((Windows Subsystem for Linux). I had to take bits and pieces of advice from several different sources using Google and lots of trials and error but it works great.
As for having disk in my router, instead of that I have a home server set up with all the disk space I need to store everything with a backup disk using Robocopy to back it up daily. You can also use Samba in OpenWRT although I have not tried it yet.
If any mods see this and do not like my talking about a different product, I just want to say I would not be doing it if the 8125 issue were fixed in DDWRT. Now I may never use DDWRT again since I learned to compile my own OpenWRT.
GL.iNET GL-BE9300 Flint 3 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL.iNET GL-MT6000 Flint 2 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL INET GL-BE3600 Slate 7 Travel Router with OpenWRT as a travel router
2 R7800's (DDWRT Build r60586) Not in use
3 R7000's (DDWRT build r62268) one used as a bridge
WRT54G-TM not in use
I ordered a 2 port Intel X540 yesterday (link below). I also ordered a 4 port X540 one from Ebay although it is coming out of China (link also below). The i226 Intel cards have mixed reviews while the X540 (10 mbps cards), have great reviews and are also future proof. I am hoping I do not get burned on the one coming from China but the price was much better than the US options. I am hoping these will allow me to use either OpenWRT or DDWRT. I may use another one of my spare computers that has more PCI slots(my Optiplex 5050 only has 2) to use these two cards with my R8125B card giving me ten 2.5 gbps plus ports
GL.iNET GL-BE9300 Flint 3 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL.iNET GL-MT6000 Flint 2 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL INET GL-BE3600 Slate 7 Travel Router with OpenWRT as a travel router
2 R7800's (DDWRT Build r60586) Not in use
3 R7000's (DDWRT build r62268) one used as a bridge
WRT54G-TM not in use
Well crap. I thought the X540 would support all speeds below 10. So I think I will install the four port card in my X86 Router and the 2 port card on my home server to give me a 10 gig connection to my server. That will free up an extra 2.5 port on my 8125 and give ma an spare 1 port 2.5 gig 8125 adapter if I ever need it.. Then I will use one of the other X540 ports in 1 gig service to go to my unmanaged 24 port 1 gig switch. I already have my house fully wired to most rooms with cat 6 ethernet cable. I plan on getting a GiLnet Flint 3 BE router the next time the prices drop so with the 10 gig connection to my server, the BE router with my Qualcomm 7800 fast connect wifi card in my laptop, I should have blazing fast speeds to my home server. I could even try bonding to double the speed from X86 router to the Flint 3 when I get it. _________________ Optiplex 7060 with i7-8700, 32GB Ram, X710-T4L, R8125B four port, & an AQC113 M2 slot card. Self compiled OpenWRT 24.10.5. Also running an Adguard Home DNS server.
GL.iNET GL-BE9300 Flint 3 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL.iNET GL-MT6000 Flint 2 with OpenWRT as an AP
GL INET GL-BE3600 Slate 7 Travel Router with OpenWRT as a travel router
2 R7800's (DDWRT Build r60586) Not in use
3 R7000's (DDWRT build r62268) one used as a bridge
WRT54G-TM not in use
ho1Aetoo is correct on those x540 card. 1Gbps or 10Gbps there is nothing in between like your typical NIC card. Also this card after googling it up they complain it runs very hot and complains of corruption probably from overheating or driver issues. This was made before Windows 11 came out and may or may not work in Windows 11 too. I'd ship them back.
The reason we wanted to show this is that the X710-T2L is not half the power consumption of the quad-port version. Still, it is notably lower power, especially at higher speeds. Getting real for a moment, in a modern high-end server that can hit 1kW or more for a dual-socket server, a few watts may not sound like a lot. With lower-power and embedded servers, 5W can still be substantial. This is also about half the power of the X540-T2 generation.
Yes, it is well known that the old cards consume about twice as much power, get very hot, and tend to overheat.
(They usually require active cooling for 10 Gbit.) _________________ Quickstart guides:
