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I've seen a few chinese knock off switches on Amazon and Alibaba that are cheap and layer 3/"managed". I messaged a few of the alibaba sellers telling them I'm "building a custom switch OS and want their hardware to prototype" and they seemed amicable to helping me get a custom firmware installed, but never pursued it more.

I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...



> I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...

100%, this has been the most frustrating thing about following the various "open" switching worlds. There's a massive gap in the middle between the sorts of 4-8 port switches that end up in OpenWRT-compatible routers and this sort of enterprise switch that's barely accessible to the "homelab" class user.

I would absolutely love to have some open switching in the "Ubiquiti" class, desktop and 1U rackmount devices with gigabit through 10G as their primary interfaces. I'm personally in the VoIP world and if I could install Asterisk directly on a 48 port PoE switch I'd be deploying them by the dozens.


> I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with

Me too. I have been eyeballing "SparX-5" based switches, which do run Linux ("SMBStaX"), but you'd need something like million bucks to get anywhere :( Could be candidate for a Kickstarter style project maybe...


Checkout RCHD-SPARX [0]. You'll need to draw the rest of the owl, but the really hard part's there. I hope someone builds a switch on that.

[0] https://conclusive.tech/products/rchd-sparx-networking-som/


> I have been eyeballing "SparX-5" based switches

Have you found any for sale other than the Microchip dev board?

I stumbled across this recently: https://www.servethehome.com/insane-48-port-2-5gbe-2x-25gbe-... but I haven't been able to find where you can buy one these days.

Sadly my PCB design skills are not quite up to dense BGA escape + 25gig lanes...


I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...

Check out DENT NOS: https://dent.dev/ There's a Delta 32x1G (PoE+) + 16x2.5G (PoE++) + 6x25G SFP28 switch that can run DENT.


Those Delta ones look nice but I can't find a reseller for them unfortunately (specifically the DVS-G106W02-2GF)




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