Here is the thread about them building switches and here is the thread about him making a blogpost about it About the Switches.

Ive bought a few dual port Mellanox 10G SFP cards which will hopefully arrive within a few weeks(cheap shipping to europe takes time).

But I guess it would be pretty cool, so I hope it will happen and be affordable.

Sense 2.2.x and above is based on FreeBSD 10, as Keljian says, so there shouldnt be any problems anymore.

I could see pfSense being ported into something similar to OpenNetLinux, which would be great because something like pfSense would hopefully be made much more configurable by the general admin.

I know Intel has made an example application of a switch with DPDK.

Interestingly enough, the Chelsio Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC does have an embedded switch chip.

Is it just plug and play if you have an appropriate switch like Ethernet is Ive never used it but the cheapness of the cards, cables and even some of the switches is attractive to me.

Youre probably up and running faster than what youre used to with regular ethernet.

After the physical layer is setup, you will not notice a difference.

Literally all I had to with my fiber was slide the transceiver into the switch, then plug the fiber cable into the transceiver (it clicks like cat6.) Then I repeated the same on the NIC side.

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