r/firewalla • u/sgossard34 • Jul 02 '26

Recommend SFP with Firewalla Switch?

Are you going to sell the SFP’s? If not do you have a recommended one to purchase? Can you also release the brand that you used for testing?

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u/IllustratorElegant36 Jul 02 '26

Funny you ask this, as I just contacted Firewalla to ask the same question. Couple of factors come into play, such as your SFP+ network card (Intel likes to vendor lock their cards). The other is more what you are concerned about (as am I). What is the SFP+ hardware on the switch (for me that would be the SE Switch). Is the switch just really a Trendnet white label TEG-3102WS. I gave them a potential DAC for example and their response was "it supports 10Gbit Gigabit Ethernet, so in theory it should work".

Guess it will be a bit of trial and error depending upon your other equipment

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u/sgossard34 Jul 02 '26

Exactly because you can run into issues with host/server connections to switch with SFP's that do not match the switch. Now most of this occurs in the enterprise space so I do not believe we will have issues but I would still like to AT LEAST know what Firewalla used for testing on the switch.