ah. gotcha now. that’s a bit different. in that case then yes, the intel card for your wan connection and a 10gb card for the lan connection. i’m personally not seeing the reasoning for pfsense to have a 10gb nic for the lan but i’m sure that’s above my head.
Thank you. I don’t know either why pfsense would need it. I just been reading over the internet that if you have many vlans, you would benefit from a 10 gig trunk port. If you go all the way down on this guide, where it states " Be mindful of trunk bandwidth" you will see what I am talking about. I post the question here because someone on here is usually knowledgeable about this stuff. Thanks again for your responses…
If you have greater than 1Gbps of inter-VLAN traffic, you should:
- utilize the L3 features of your managed switch to handle inter-VLAN routing
- perhaps rethink your VLAN configuration
pf fundamentally can’t really handle much traffic (~3.5 Gbps IIRC), and you will encounter some latency issues everywhere if you’re pushing that. A 10Gb NIC in a pfSense machine can also be referred to as a waste of cash.
I get it now. never had pfsense handle vlan traffic. always had my switch do it. the dell that the s2500 replaced handled it for me and the s2500 does just fine. very interesting though. no problem, one reason we’re here.
riggi, thanks for the heads up.
Thank you for your response. Are you saying, instead of creating vlans in pfsense, I should just configure the S2500? There’s no reason to create any interfaces in pfsense for this? I am Just trying to understand better. This is still very new to me… Thank you…
Thanks! Got my S2500 24P initialized, webgui setup and two additional useable Sfp+ ports active now with help from this guide. Much appreciated. Tbh it was knowing this guide existed that influenced me to buy this model with confidence in the first place. That and discussions with seanho.
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This thing is starting to get under my skin. Bought a S2500 24port POE. Did a factory refresh. Trying to setup the web interface. 172.16.0.254 like another person said. Firefox, chrome, IE compatibility mode all give me an Aruba Networks banner, but otherwise blank screen. I’m on version 7.3.1.0.
Update: Had to update the firmware via CL first. Couldn’t get any browser to work under 7.3.1.0 and the latest browser versions. Should have started with CL, was very straight forward. Followed these instructions and pulled the latest firmware off HPs site.
Looks like the prices have jumped quite a bit.
S2500 and S3500 24port GBE with 10G ports are about $150 now.
Trying to decide between a S3500 and a Dell 5524P to go along with the 2 IAP-207 Aruba APs
S3500 didn’t seem to have a lot of love due to its noise.
What USB stick did you use because im having issues getting the s3500 to update the firmware
Any…? Formatted to fat32, get the firmware file and slap it in the folder.
I’m a bit late to this party, but depending on the client, you should be able to use the -c modifier to specify which cipher to use.
When it says the cipher wasn’t supported, it usually shows their “offers”
You pick one of those offers, and ssh using the following command ssh -c [chosen cipher] [user]@[IP Address]
You should be prompted for the password after that, and then get an active session.
There’s no harm in pulling the plug. No spinning disks, so really nothing to hurt. Just make sure you’ve remembered to use the ‘write memory’ command in the configuration terminal before restarting the switch, or those settings will be lost when power is lost.
So I got a 48 port POE switch and I’m using 12 of the ports currently. With all these free ports I’d love to power a lamp (or 8) that have Philips Hue bulbs in them (less than 10 watts a bulb at full brightness). I can’t seem to find a DIY on the internet to convert my lamp to POE so what am I missing?
Would I fry my switch? I don’t want that.
Fry the bulb? I don’t want that either.
Waste of a good Network jack? I don’t care about that.
I’d lose light when my switch goes down? I can live with that.
Upside, I’d have light during a power outage because the switch will be on a UPS and I’ll fun converting my lamps.
Just looking for some insight. Not trying to start a fire.
This would be a gargantuan undertaking, you’d have to bypass the AC power module in each bulb and implement your own that respects PoE standards of power on differing pairs and normalizing voltage from a wide input range, while being conscious of the efficiency of your new power module - with 802.3af, you will most likely end up with less than 10W assured.
If you’d still like to attempt this for educational purposes, read up on the power standard - particularly the interactions between PSE (power sourcing equipment) and PDs (powered devices), to avoid doing anything dangerous.
This is an extremely brief (and fairly old, predating 802.3at’s ratification) description of PD design, but you should certainly read more than this.
Don’t use an AC fixture, just get a PoE splitter of appropriate voltage and drive the LEDs / light strip directly from DC. Up to 15W from 802.3af, 30W from 802.3at. Splitters with 5v USB/micro-USB are cheap and abundant. I’ve used splitters to power a pi, small APs, cable modem, old camera, etc.
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Hi,
i try this but when i enter the IP i see only the header from Aruba and nothing to configure.
There is a xml Request error
best
Greg
Welcome to the forum! Try using a different browser, firefox, edge, ie, chrome, try something besides what you’re using now.
hey everyone. Got my switch setup and I’m trying to update firmware. I made the free account at HP, but when I try to download I get the error
“For the security of your company assets and licenses, we do not support new user registration with public domain email addresses such as gmail.com, yahoo.com, outlook.com, etc. Please use your corporate email address to register for My Networking portal.”
Anyone else getting this? I use gmail so I definitely fall under their rule.
Second question: I should be downloading the ‘current release’ OS not the MIB’s right?
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