So my freind upgraded his network to 2.5gb and has been having trouble with pfsense and opnsense. found out it could be his realtek nic in his dell optiplex router.
any cheap 4 port 2.5gb nic’s he can try?
He can use 2 - 2 port NICs if he must.
If you’re using any FreeBSD-based OS you should manually compile the realtek-re-kmod port. Make sure your kernel source is in sync with what you’re running.
On a router, I’d rather spend $40 on a NIC that doesn’t pile up every kernel update. In the early days of Linux, I’d always keep a NE2000 in servers as a backdoor network connection for any system that had a compiled driver for a faster card.
Yeah it’s a pain in the arse. I 100% recommend Broadcom or Intel NICs for a router. I have a fileserver which has several Intel NICs and a single Realtek one and the latter is a PITA.
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If you’re using any FreeBSD-based OS you should manually compile the realtek-re-kmod port. Make sure your kernel source is in sync with what you’re running.
On a router, I’d rather spend $40 on a NIC that doesn’t pile up every kernel update. In the early days of Linux, I’d always keep a NE2000 in servers as a backdoor network connection for any system that had a compiled driver for a faster card.
Yeah it’s a pain in the arse. I 100% recommend Broadcom or Intel NICs for a router. I have a fileserver which has several Intel NICs and a single Realtek one and the latter is a PITA.