Hardware advice needed - 10 Gb LAN
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Hi,
I have pfSense box (Dell Wyse 5070 J5005) with quad port 1 Gb nic, one switch and one AP as backbone of LAN.
On my network I have a couple of VLANs. I would like to upgrade my local network to 10 Gb.
As I understand if all my devices which have 10 GB nics are on same VLAN I only need to upgrade switch to 10 GB switch.
In my case I have some of them on different VLANs and that will make trouble cause pfSense will do routing, so I must change NIC on pfSense also (thinking of Chelsio T422-CR nic).
Does anyone know if Intel Silver J5005 will handle 10 GB for local lan, it's PCI 2.0 x 4 on motherboard?
Another option is to upgrade box to some cpu that will handle 10 GB routing on local lan or Layer 3 switch if I'm thinking correctly.
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@LawRi said in Hardware advice needed - 10 Gb LAN:
Does anyone know if Intel Silver J5005 will handle 10 GB
Almost certainly not. You'd probably need something at least twice as powerful IMO.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Thanks for answer.
So, I need new device for pfSense or layer 3 switch or put all devices with 10 gb nics on same VLAN
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If you want to actually route 10Gbps, yes. I'd expect that CPU to reach something in the 3-4Gbps range. Perhaps that's enough for the times you need to connect between VLANs.