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 threadSven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @kunsi @sysadmin I don't know if this is useful for this case but nowadays there's a type of cheap 10G switch floating around AliExpress that has 2xSFP+ and 8 RJ45 ports, may perhaps be worth looking into depending on how much stuff needs to be connected and what other features are needed (there's supposedly a managed version of it as well but I have no idea what that entails)
Show threadMaartje
@joepie91 @kunsi @sysadmin i have one of those in the lab, however i don’t trust them for the main rack and 8 ports isn’t enough 🫣
Sep 28, 2025 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadSven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @kunsi @sysadmin Ah yeah if you need more than 8 ports then they're useless 😅

I'm pretty sure it's all just using some single chip that has 3x 10G ports or so. There's also a variant with 16x ports... and only 1x SFP+ so they clearly just rewired one of the SFP+ ports to be used for the extra 8 RJ45 ports lol