10 Gigabit Ethernet on a Raspberry Pi?!

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 works great with a 10 GbE NIC. But at what cost?

Well, I tallied it up - here's the gear I bought in the course of making this video:

Here's the guide for cross-compiling the Pi OS Linux kernel so you can use this card:

And here's the page where I have all the details about the ASUS 10G NIC and how I got it working on the Pi Compute Module 4:

#RaspberryPi #Networking #CCNA

Contents:

00:00 - 10 GbE on a Pi?!
00:13 - Testing at 10 Gbps
00:57 - Might as well rewire the house
01:53 - And maybe buy a new Mac
02:24 - Does anything matter?
02:44 - Getting 10G on the Pi
03:39 - The future of multi-gig on Pi
04:22 - SFP+? Fiber? Other NICs to come!
04:35 - Thanks and Outtakes

[jusjaisinghani]

Really appreciate that you didn't extend the video just because you had put in a ton of effort and time in it.

[izzieb]

This is great content and information... That I have absolutely no need for. I still watch though.

[AlbaxArcade]

Jeff, I want you to know that I really enjoy your Raspberry PI and other video's!
Keep up the great work!

[stefankachaunov]

Jeff: I'm testing 10Gbit on a budget
Also Jeff: Re-wires the whole house with CAT6 and upgrades every network-connected device

[patrickjoseph]

Like how you said "Anthony and Linus" you know who's the brains of the show over at LTT

[llortaton]

Jeff Geerling
: "it cost 2000$ to go 10Gbe"
Mac mini : not my fault i'm as cheap as i can be!

[utp]

That Raspberry Pi network project really sent you down the rabbit hole! Wow!

[diosyntaxa]

It's not always about "How useful it is". It's often more about "Can you do it!?" :D It's like my current project. I live by myself and have no use for a standalone AP really, out of the box consumer grade routers work fine if you just get a nice enough one (the Netgear I got from a friend who didn't need it is great, much better than what I used to have) but now I have an AP on the wall, a 16 port switch with 8 PoE-ports (for the AP, for my Pi-hole when I upgrade that to use PoE, for whatever else I want, like maybe a camera and stuff) a patch panel that I Haven't mounted anywhere yet and a work-in-progress home-built router that's going to run pfsense or similar as soon as I get the 3200G I ordered. Why? Well, apart from the switch which is just to have more ports and PoE, which would be considered useful, the rest is really just because I want to :D And, can I do this? Going to try my hand at VLANs for the first time as well :p Just cause. :D

[rklauco]

For such a short video, you went to some great lengths ;) Thanks!

[ASUSTOR_YT]

Are you gonna make me bring out our big guns and duke it out against the 10GbE Pi as a NAS? :P

I'm kidding of course.

[regisdrift]

Love your videos man, you always go the next mile when testing things

[charlie]

I love the little in video text about cutting your pcie slot! (Coming from someone who's been too afraid to take the plunge and do it on my io board :))

[gabriel_ekstrom]

It's really cool what you can do with a Raspberry Pi!

[urfriend]

Jeff I want to thank you for providing a very constructive YouTube channel And with family friendly humor. Because other channels do also provide constructive technology videos however they do not provide family friendly humor and for that reason I want to thank you.

[tubeDude]

On a budget! Are you kidding me!?!?!? With all the gear you have!! That's insane! Wish I had 1/3 of that equipment...

[ncot_tech]

You only had to rewire your entire network, replace the gear AND compile the kernel just once?

I bet that felt weirdly straight forward then ;-)

[phuturephunk]

That was insane. I'm in awe of you.

[Kaotix_music]

“Are you really gonna see people using 10 gig on raspberry pies?”

Me: yes.

[platin]

That nic has a pretty good NAPI Driver really nice 👍🏻

[some-user-]

"I can be totally sure none of my gear or cabling is bottlenecking the pi"

The pi IS the bottleneck