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.

    • @ikidd
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      31 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        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.