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Funny I went down this rathole very shortly after discovering the "Thunderbolt networking" change in the Linux kernel. My hope was the use the Linux box (with
by FullyFunctional 5y ago
Funny I went down this rathole very shortly after discovering the "Thunderbolt networking" change in the Linux kernel. My hope was the use the Linux box (with 10 GbE) as a bridge/switch to give my Mac cheap 10 GbE access. While point-to-point did hit more or less the expected speed, bridging was horribly slow. Ended up just getting an Sonnet Solo10G SFP+ adapter (which is great).
- 21com 5y ago> bridging was horribly slow. Can you quantify that? (I'm wondering if it might be good-enough for my needs.)
- FullyFunctional 5y agoI'm afraid it was 2+ years ago so I don't remember, but it must have been slower than the comparable speed from the gigabit wired connection. FWIW, I was so happy with the Sonnet (not as hot as some alternatives I've used) that I bought two more. However, unless you are using fiber or for other reasons preferring SFP+, going with the grain and getting 10Gbase-T is probably easier. Getting back to the OP, this could be interesting for me if and only if I can get fiber based Thunderbolt-4, but it seems to not yet be available.
- wmf 5y agoI'm pretty sure Thunderbolt 3 cables will work: https://www.amazon.com/optical-thunderbolt-cables-Corning/s?k=optical+thunderbolt+cables+by+Corning https://www.amazon.com/optical-thunderbolt-cables-Corning/s?...
- FullyFunctional 5y agoThanks. $528 for 30 meter TB3 compared to $35 for 30 meter OM4 and a pair of $10 10G SFP+ modules (and the same OM4 will carry 25GbE just fine). Seems like it's not really cost effective.