Even 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 pfs

Even 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.