OK, i have tried once in the past and failed. Walked away took a breath. Ready to try again, but THIS TIME i know there’s a lot i dont know.
I’m looking to slap a couple 10G nic’s into my desktop and my home server. Both are running Ubuntu 20.04 i have ordered a YuanLey switch with 2 10G SFP+ ports (and 4 2.5G ethernet)
i want to purchase 2 nics (dont need to be dual port, single is fine) preferably off of ebay. maybe something like this? but when i tried this before i accidently bought a converged network duhickeymabob and had a nightmare of a time i eventually gave up and called it lost money. I dont want that experience again and was hoping you kind folks could let me know if what i linked here would work, or if not, point me in the right direction.
Intel x540 chipset NICs are popular. You’ll have to jump up to the x550 for 2.5 or 5, but if 10 is your goal you can’t go wrong. Unless you get a knockoff instead of the genuine article.
Passive cards like that one you linked will need plenty of airflow to stay cool. Something to keep in mind.
what scares me is they all say “converged network adapter” …that’s what screwed me on my last attempt. i couldn’t figure out how to get the card to switch to standard mode.
Just for the sake of asking, you followed the steps outlined here? I’d be surprised if the vendors software didn’t work at all, but I’ve already been surprised once today.
A “converged” network refers to one where servers access block storage over an Ethernet network instead of using a separate Fibre Channel network. A “converged network adapter” therefore might support offloads for a storage protocol like iSCSI or FCoE, and might support booting over such a protocol. It will still work as a network adapter even if you don’t use those features, so there is no need to avoid a NIC labeled that way.
A “bypass adapter” is something much more specialized, and I would avoid those unless you have a specific use case that requires one.
@wizarddata - i didn’t see that specific page, but i tried finding the utility to edit the driver - and everything i found, be it from silicoms page, or github, or the underground meth kitchen, nothing would compile - everything gave me errors.
