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Nope, both NICs are Realtek. It'll make a great flaming pile of shit. I've never had realtek network hardware that wasn't unstable under load on linux.
by fake-name 8y ago
Nope, both NICs are Realtek. It'll make a great flaming pile of shit.
I've never had realtek network hardware that wasn't unstable under load on linux.
- type0 8y agoEven when it is stable one would never achieve the same speed with their implementation (well, some occasional segfaults in FreeBSD depending on the NIC and pfsense version), Realtek can work good enough -just not optimal and not always reliable. Too bad - otherwise it looks like a good board.
- arghwhat 8y agoNever had problems with Realtek on Linux in recent years. Had a lot of problems with it under *BSD a decade ago, though. I still prefer Intel NICs, but IIRC, Realtek works just fine now. The new network antichrist is "Killer" WiFi NICs
- bpye 8y agoAnd in my experience Killer ethernet NICs, though maybe they have gone the way of the dodo by now (I hope so).
- osivertsson 8y agoWhich Realtek Ethernet NICs are we talking about? For me they have been rock-solid using Debian for many years across different generations of Realtek NICs. On the other hand I have experienced no end of issues with Intel 82574L, e.g. http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1730550 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1730550
- rjsw 8y agoI need support for jumbo frames on the external interface. Intel NICs provide it, most other brands don't.
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