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by MisterTea 59 days ago
I don't configure anything on the mikrotik. Out of the box it's a dumb switch and that is all I want.

> The Mikrotik switches are also fanless, and 10GbE SFP+ adapters throw off a lot of heat.

If you are talking about copper SFP's, then that's the problem: copper. It takes a lot of energy to drive a wire at GHz speeds, not so much with an optical link (though it's getting much better.) I have only ever felt luke warm optical and DAC SFP's. Copper 10 Gb SFP's are burning hot. I avoid using copper and run fiber.