I can vouch for the fact that the Pi 1,2 and 3 work fine with a simple 12W 10/100 PoE network/power splitter. They work fine with 9front as it is mostly transparent to the OS as far as I can tell. Chris On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:23 PM Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > The PoE hat shouldn't need any software support. I don't have one, but > it's basically a DC-DC converter. The Pi PoE hat has an Attiny processor > for temperature sensing/fan operation. > > You can also use a PoE splitter (48V->5V/2.4A micro USB) which would work > for all Pi's. > > -Skip > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:16 PM wrote: > >> I have four Raspberry Pi model 4B boards and a Raspberry Pi model 3B+ >> board and would like to know whether or not Power over Ethernet (PoE) is >> supported by the Pi9 port. >> >> Has anyone attempted to power a Plan9 cluster/grid over PoE? What PoE >> network switches would you recommend? Were there any issues? Richard >> Miller? >> >> To be clear, a PoE network enables boards to be powered over an Ethernet >> network if a side-board (HAT) is connected. [1] A PoE network switch >> conforming to IEEE 802.3af delivers power through the each Pi's RJ45 >> network connector over Cat 5 cabling. [2] >> >> To my knowledge, neither the 9front kernel sources nor the documented >> list of supported hardware, specifically mentions PoE. [3] It seems the >> network switch and HAT negotiate power delivery independently of the >> kernel so I cannot think of a reason why Plan9 would not support >> powering this way. >> >> References >> [1]: >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-power-over-ethernet-poe-hat/ >> [2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1213877 >> [3]: https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html >> >> -- >> Barry Wasdell (bwasd) >> > *9fans * / 9fans / see discussions > + participants > + delivery options > Permalink > >