MaartjeSep 28, 2025

I’m not a fan of doing this but it is for a good cause.

Hi, as you might know blahaj.social  is a small vulunteer ran incomeless part of the fediverse  
We built it several years ago with recycled servers and network equipment.

Our @sysadmin haj has been working hard but our core switch and one of our HDDs refused to come online after a power cut.
Donations to purchase a replacement are very welcome at https://blahaj.social/about (shark pictures are also very welcome 💕)

Show threadFranziskaSep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin What are you looking for as core switch? I have two EX4200s (24port with 8port PoE) sitting around collecting dust ...
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@kunsi @sysadmin our switch was a 48 port but we don’t use most of it. Important is several SFP+ ports for switching the 10gig uplink, server and storage links. And several ports for linkagg to older devices.
My spare rack switches sadly lack the 10 gig 😢
Show threadFranziska

@maartje @sysadmin yeah, the EX4200s also don't have SFP+ ports.

I could lend out one of my Arista 7050s (48port 1gig copper, 4x SFP+), but i'd need that back soonish

Sep 28, 2025 at 12:08pmWeb
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025

@kunsi @sysadmin the switch we used was old but weardly enough had SFP+ unlike others, it also was a weird quanta switch with cisco copycat software 😂

Thanks for the offer but on short term we seem to manage with some workarounds ❤️ just have to watch out as i think backups will bottleneck the 1gig links