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Same. From lore and experience, Intel is more stable than Realtek for 1G on Linux.
by 3np 4y ago
Same. From lore and experience, Intel is more stable than Realtek for 1G on Linux.
- bayindirh 4y agoIntel managed to break some of their older consumer 1G NICs under Linux pretty reliably while adding support for newer NICs, and failed to fix them for a very long time. At the end, Debian reverted Intel's patches and shipped a modified version which probably didn't enable some features on the newer NICs, but didn't break the older ones in the process. It's ironic that the underdog Realtek has much more reliable cards which doesn't shudder under constant load and/or very long uptime scenarios. Realtek won't cut in server scenarios, but Intel's and Broadcom's server class NICs are completely different beasts when compared to Intel's consumer NICs, too. Wish they had given some more attention to them while developing their drivers.