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"Dad's laughing, but I'm about to host the most epic LAN party of my life"
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"Dad's laughing, but I'm pretty sure this thing costs way more than a Nintendo Switch. Now where can I sell it...?"
The electric bill will return the expense to dad.
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I literally asked for a network switch for my birthday a few days ago. Although it's a 16x sfp+ switch for my home fiber rollout.
I didn't get it because it didn't go on sale and I told my mom not to. Although I suspect she didn't listen to me and got it for Christmas (it's impossible to tell her not to get a present she knows you want, and also to not spend the budget she set aside).
So, now you're waiting till Christmas? Or, will you end up with two of them?
This is getting out of hand!
It's not an immediate need since I don't have a rack installed yet, but it's essential to my planned network architecture.
I still have more fiber runs to pull, and that has to wait till fall.
Dude are u running a data center in ur basement or what lol
16sfp ports is basically a single home office amount.
You got the outside wire to firewall, firewall to router, router to your pc, wife pc, kid pc, home NAS, and home server. Maybe another one to a poe switch for cameras and doorbells too. Nine ports needed with just a basic setup.
I also converted my gaming rig into a hypervisor.
But I think they meant more along the lines of me running a 10gbps switch.
Oh. That's a no brainer for anyone who regularly uses their network though? I have a 70gb music library I move around a lot for my mp3 player because I'm still playing with conversion settings. The difference between a 15 minute transfer vs a 3 minute transfer is huge if it keeps coming up. Before that it was large amounts of family vhs recordings getting moved. Platee has their own example just below me too.
1gbps is plenty for like, the family watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever, but anyone running a homelab will eventually run into long wait times when playing around with the server and nas at just 1gbps. Maybe you don't care and just wait it out, but for me at least, part of the fun is getting new parts, and then actually seeing those parts getting used entirely. A 16 port sfp switch isn't necessarily cheap, but around 300$ means it could be this months hobby purchase without too much fuss.
The nice thing about keeping most of my stuff on spinning rust is the throughput on the drives are just about the same as the network.
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A Proxmox cluster with Ceph pretty much won't work without 10Gbps.
It'll slowly fail and all your data will get lost. Ask me how I know.
(Also, you need at least 4GB memory dedicated to Ceph on each node... Another compounding lesson learned)
If software depends on specific infrastructure to work, then it should have it as a hard requirement. Haven't tried Ceph myself, but this sounds like there's something very wrong with it conceptually or the way it's set up.
It's more that Proxmox has a weird niche laying between both enterprise/small-medium business and also homelab infrastructure.
Ceph is designed towards the former where 10Gbe fibre and hosts with a boatload of RAM is fairly commonplace.
My problems were a result of not paying close enough attention to those requirements and just hoping it would work on small micro PCs with 12GB of ram.
Yeah, but even if that's the case, I would expect it 1) to refuse to run at all if something's not fit or 2) to just be bottlenecked by the network instead of making data disappear altogether.
Oh, to be fair the data disappeared because I was stupid for a different reason and proxmox upgrades were done out of order.
I'm basically 100% to blame for the data loss, but it was impacting performance from an IO and memory perspective before I fucked it all up.
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Dear old Dad is in IT, and he explains that this is a lot more expensive than a nintendo switch.
Only the "license", hardware is cheap
Poor kid got a hand me down cisco IOS garbage fresh off the legacy rack decommissioning full of old ass Sun SPARC servers.
At least get him something new.
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At least it's a proper Cisco one and not those shitty Linksys/SG ones.
Unfortunately it’s a Cisco one, so there’s probably recurring support costs tied to it.
Got to teach them about support contracts now otherwise Pal Alto will gouge them with their credits system.
Shitty Linksys, a Cisco brand you mean?
Also, Cisco’s list of absolute bonkers vulnerabilities is not a good sign tbh.
They sold Linksys to Belkin ages ago and rebranded the stuff they kept as SG.
TBF even though they have a significant number of vulns, they are at least open about handling them unlike other vendors.
So you're going to fix the vulnerabilities, right?
...
...right?
Thanks, I didn’t know. I sort of said goodbye decades ago when linksys was the wifi kit and they got gobbled up.
I have a couple of 8-port Gigabit Netgear switches that have been working perfectly for about 15 years, now.
I sort-of forget about them. They just work. It's nice.
“I said I wanted Switch 2!”
“Switch 2? What’s wrong with the first one I gave you?”
That switch predates the switch by quite a while
Pretty sure this is gonna be a better investment in future and cannot be bricked by nintendo when they feel like it.
@The_Picard_Maneuver Or, alternately, in the 80s if your grandma had literally NO IDEA about kids' toys. (When my brother asked for a Transformer for his birthday, she called my mom asking for specs and whether he was sure this was what he wanted.)
"Hey, some lady is on the phone saying she wants a 15 kVA transformer. Pole-mount, single-phase. She seems like she knows what she's talking about but then she asked if we gift wrap..."
"nein papa, minecraft, mineCRAFT!"
At least your dad is not black.
This comment confused me until I remembered that Community scene.
Yep , that’s what I meant :)
Wtf.
Are you sure this isn't a scene from a porno?
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Edit: it works now, but what the actual copulation is that
I guess I should provide context for people who haven't watched Community, lol
Well.. today I got educated.
I would have loved that gift as a teenager - I only had a 4port hub, which limited the people I could invite to a LAN party
I'm doing NetworkChuck's Summer of CCNA. I know what a switch is now :)
Dad trying to turn his son into a sysadmin
Lucky.
bruh
Capitalisation is lost in spoken word. Blame capitalism?
/s
To be honest, I prefer a switch rather than a switch right now.
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