proxmox 7 Proxmox 7.2-3 10G SFP support

[Noah0302]

Hi guys,

I plan on using a 10Gtek BCM57810S card, using the Broadcom 57810S chip, for a nice networking upgrade.
But my question is, if Proxmox 7.2-3 has the fitting drivers for the card...

I also plan on connecting it to a TP-Link SG3400 JetStream, if that matters.

Thank you for reading, I hope you can help me!

[Robchil]

last time i checked, and tested 10GBit SFP's it wasn't SFP vendor that had the drivers, but check if that SFP supports both your switch and NIC. 

we tested a few synoptics long range 10G SFP's. and the switches didn't support long range so the ID on the SFP had to be reburned on an eprom burner, so it thought it was something else  short range 10G SFP's.. 

the only difference was the voltage tolerances the switch used, but after reburning the switch ate them anyway. 

 

For nic's i've only used twinax 10G connections... that was never an issue.

 

Edit.. 

ah.. i see proxmox is a hypervisor.. 

if the nic drivers are supported it should be ok. 

like in vmware and hyperv too. 

 

after a bit reading.. i see it's a red-hat based hypervisor. and look up what nic's are supported in redhat. and red hat supports it from version 5.8

 

uhm.. or not.. other places says it is a debian kernel.. well try as se if the card loads it's supported. 

 

 Debian 11.3 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15.30

 

 

 

seems like it will work but needs tweaking. 

 

[Noah0302]

On 5/11/2022 at 12:46 PM, Robchil said:

last time i checked, and tested 10GBit SFP's it wasn't SFP vendor that had the drivers, but check if that SFP supports both your switch and NIC. 

we tested a few synoptics long range 10G SFP's. and the switches didn't support long range so the ID on the SFP had to be reburned on an eprom burner, so it thought it was something else  short range 10G SFP's.. 

the only difference was the voltage tolerances the switch used, but after reburning the switch ate them anyway. 

 

For nic's i've only used twinax 10G connections... that was never an issue.

 

Edit.. 

ah.. i see proxmox is a hypervisor.. 

if the nic drivers are supported it should be ok. 

like in vmware and hyperv too. 

 

after a bit reading.. i see it's a red-hat based hypervisor. and look up what nic's are supported in redhat. and red hat supports it from version 5.8

 

uhm.. or not.. other places says it is a debian kernel.. well try as se if the card loads it's supported. 

 

 Debian 11.3 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15.30

 

 

 

seems like it will work but needs tweaking. 

 

Thank you, that is really informative.

 

I guess Ill just try it out, if my config will work. If not ;D