My budget is under 100w for 3 servers with a combined 18tb of ssd and 28tb of spinning rust that stays spun down unless I need to so a cold backup.

The NVR doesnt have to live in the same VLAN if you give it explicit firewall rules to traverse to the tainted camera VLAN for the explicit purpose of fetching the rtsp stream from the cursed cameras. Its how I setup my network. The cameras are islanded, I setup Frigate to be allowed to go in and open that port over TCP. The cameras try to phone home and pull DNS but are ignored, only traffic they’re allowed to product is rtsp to Frigate.

Ok sorry its been a busy day but here are the things I ordered and all work:

This one adds two ports, uses the M keyed slot, top right. I do not recommend this one because there is no way to mount the ports. You’ll have to zip tie it like I did. Very sloppy.

This one is what I’d recommend, it will take full use of that 1xPCIe 3.0 lane and fits the A+E slot. The RJ45 will screw nicely into the back of the chassis. FYI this is not EXACTLY what I bought but looks pretty much the same. If you want to use this with pfsense you might consider an Intel based chipset but i used Realtek fine on my setup.

Godspeed!

I’m in a rush but ive put Ethernet cards in both slots of my optiplex 3080 m.2 slots. The top right slot is vanilla and 4xpcie lanes,full speed. The bottom left is A+e keying and only 1x lane which is enough for 2.5gig Ethernet. This is ultimately what i used. For my prfesene box I added a second card, a 2 port Ethernet card to the top right m.2 slot and made it a four port beast.

I thought that was going to be the outcome of the first presidency, but then they reelected him even after January 6th. He is still a king maker in this mid-term, all my hope is gone. Americans are hopeless.