It won’t help with switching, but it is good for routing/fw + running real software.
I just run a Netgate appliance for that plus something less flaky than OpenWRT.
I also wonder what actual speeds you can get out of these NICs. So many cheap gigabit NICs aren’t really up to the task. And I’d guess that the switch plane runs at 1 gigabit total here.
I just run a Netgate appliance for that plus something less flaky than OpenWRT.
I also wonder what actual speeds you can get out of these NICs. So many cheap gigabit NICs aren’t really up to the task. And I’d guess that the switch plane runs at 1 gigabit total here.