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RAXE500 BCM54991 bypass
So i was having a issue with the router no longer working so i looked it over with a thermal camera to find that the bcm54911e chip that drives the 2.5gb port was cooking like a frying pan. once remo...
If we would face a 10 Gb PHY here, there could be some heatsinks required, indeed. On a tiny 2.5Gb PHY, probably operating on a GbE link only (you have not mentioned any details), quiet mainstream these days, even if operated at the full nominal speed at the maximum cable length 24*7, there can't be any critical heat developed. Unless there was some soldering or chipset level issue...
I for sure think it was a chip failure since the design doesn't involve a heat spreader or thermal compound on the chip. Sadly I believe my only option is going to be to find another router with the same lan chip and transfer it over which isn't really hard.