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Title: Mellanox SN2010 as hardware for OPNsense
Post by: ezra55 on April 26, 2021, 07:00:33 pm

Hello!

I've stumbled upon a used Mellanox device that has just a plain linux OS running on it. Would anyone know if OPNsense could run on it? https://blog.mellanox.com/2017/11/mellanox-sn2010-the-best-hyperconverged-infrastructure-switch/

it has 18 10G/25G sfp+ ports and 4x 40G/100G uplink sfp+ and 2x mnmt 1GB ports. Would this even make (opn)sense to reflash this?

Thanks

Title: Re: Mellanox SN2010 as hardware for OPNsense
Post by: matthew.j.hill on May 02, 2021, 07:13:28 pm

Hmm, that link doesn't seem to work for me.  Is it still correct?

Title: Re: Mellanox SN2010 as hardware for OPNsense
Post by: harshw on May 03, 2021, 07:24:38 am

Quote from: ezra55 on April 26, 2021, 07:00:33 pm

Hello!

I've stumbled upon a used Mellanox device that has just a plain linux OS running on it. Would anyone know if OPNsense could run on it? https://blog.mellanox.com/2017/11/mellanox-sn2010-the-best-hyperconverged-infrastructure-switch/

it has 18 10G/25G sfp+ ports and 4x 40G/100G uplink sfp+ and 2x mnmt 1GB ports. Would this even make (opn)sense to reflash this?

Thanks

The SN2010 seems to be x86/Intel Atom based, but you're better off using a proper network OS like Cumulus.

OPNSense and NOSes like Cumulus are complementary and meant for different things. In any case, I doubt OPNSense supports ONIE or the ASICs used in the Mellanox - and of course you'd have to get a SN2010 that had ONIE on it so that you could install your own network OS.