On: Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still control...

[pzduniak]

It's an ARM Linux device that you plug into a port that's usually only present in switches.

[dilyevsky → pzduniak]

Anyone buys rack mounted servers without sfp/qsfp nic these days?

[johnbellone → pzduniak]

I’d love to hear more about this. Do you happen to have a write up?

[dilyevsky → johnbellone]

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside

Tl;dr - they baked a computer inside of network connector cuz it’s already huge. To do… stuff. Kinda like bmc