PC with multiple ethernet ports

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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i would like to ask your proposal for a refurbished PC with 4 ethernet cards, in Europe please.
is it OK to get any PC? if yes which ethernet card? a bit lost there, which one is compatible?

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One option:

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Used Fujitsu Futro S920 with 415GA CPU - 30€ on eBay
PCIe riser - 10€
Quad port gigabit NIC - 15€ on eBay

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i hope that the following card will be OK with OpenWRT and drivers

1GBE INTEL I350 QUAD PORT

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As a person who started last year,

This one was recognized without issue.
Particularly useful for me when I decided to take advantage of any offloading and acceleration options I deemed necessary

Intel server grade I350

  • Ethernet Controller(s): for Intel NHI350AM4
  • PCI Express* 2.1 (5GT/s) , operable in x4 or greater slots
  • IPMI pass-through via SMBus or NC-SI, iSCSI boot, WoL, PXE remote boot, VLAN filtering
  • IEEE 802.3/10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.1Q VLANs, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 1588, IEEE 802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
  • Support Windows Server 2003 / Server 2008 / R2 / Server 2012 / R2, Win 7 / Win 8 / Win 8.1 / Win 10 32&64Bit, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Novell, UnixWare / OpenUnix 8
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A bit pricey?

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Some components are worth kicking a little extra out for in a long-term especially if you're downloading information with it.

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4port card does not kick into iot-grade space

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Besides I already cheaped out with the computer lolz

renewed Dell 3040 SFF $99 when I purchased

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I don't follow. Personally when I look for a Network part, I think about future proofing and longevity as well as feature-rich

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With these retrofits you're already dangerously close to the prices for new alderlake-n 'firewall' mini PCs with four 2.5GBASE-T ports, at least if you order from abroad with the slow ship, during a sale. In other words, it probably makes more sense to buy a new N100/ N97 mini PC instead (especially with 24/7 power consumption and the assurance that the whole unit 'works' in mind).

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You could have easily gotten away with an used AiO below the $50 mark, if the amount of ports was the only requirement.

Pretty sure most used quad port cards you can get on ebay would be "server grade"...

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On aliexpress there is intel dual 10gig nic for 12 $ and works like a charm with s920.

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dual <> quad.
based on the YT video I posted earlier, the S920 maxes out around 6.8Gbit (@6:20).

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Yes two, more is pointless when there still will be switch , split with vlan and learn something new.

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Ahh as it turns out that's one of the things I didn't buy used. I'm very picky when it comes to buying things off eBay some parts of the descriptions can often be more exaggerated than Amazon.

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that's why you buy used server grade stuff, you know what you're getting :slight_smile:

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But what about abuse factor because usually server stuff have gone through a lot of abuse already right?

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abuse ?

you mean usage ? yes, but it's server grade, so it's actually supposed to last for a while :wink:
most server grade hw isn't (re)sold because it's bad, but because the vendor dropped the support.

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Personally I would trust Amazon before eBay when it comes to testing any second hand item