Yeah a cheap switch probably wouldn’t cut it. You’d need a more expensive managed switch to do segregated vlans, which would balloon the budget.

Not sure on veth segregation, but you could probably try with equipment you already have (onboard nic w/ veths > unmanaged gbit switch)

I’ve been looking at the open banana pi router since it has openwrt (debian/Ubuntu too). I think I’m going to wait and hope they put more multi-gig ports on next one tho.

You can probably use it, but you will not get full throughput on all the ports at the same time. 3.5/6 max real world.

My advice, get a cheap pcie4 10g nic and a 10g switch with multiple ports, but idk what you’re trying to do.

I think you’re missing the point of a riser. I’d the motherboard only has a 3.0x1 port, plugging in an x16 riser means it’ll still only be x1 electrically, but it can physically fit larger cards. If the back of the slot is open already there not much point of using a riser since you can physically fit larger cards already.

• If your board has pcie 3.0x1, you want the pcie 3.0 card. Running at 2.0x1 reduces speed by 50%

Pcie 2.0x1 would have a theoretical max of 4gbit/s so it would probably only handle 3.5 gigabit of connections simultaneously.

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