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#1

Hardware and Performance / Re: Warning about RealTek adap...

Last post by meyergru - Today at 12:12:05 AM

No, but the reports on the internet were all over the place and some were Intel boards, too, like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1p1syhw/realtek_rtl8127_dropping_out/

#2

26.1 Series / Re: IPFire Domain Blocklist ( ...

Last post by Patrick M. Hausen - Today at 12:07:05 AM

I am going to try them in AdGuard Home because blocklist management and logging in AGH is great, so why not.

[RED]

#3

26.1 Series / Re: IPFire Domain Blocklist ( ...

Last post by nero355 - February 11, 2026, 11:57:35 PM

My eyes hurt when I open that link... :(

You should have linked to : https://www.ipfire.org/blog/introducing-ipfire-dbl-community-powered-domain-blocking-for-everyone

Still a lot of RED but just a fraction compared to the link above !!



Seems to work with Pi-Hole too, but not going to use it for now since a lot of websites/companies claim to have the best Block List out there and not all of them are actually that great...

#4

Hardware and Performance / Re: [solved] Intel i226 Firmwa...

Last post by RobertoZ - February 11, 2026, 11:45:32 PM

Hello!

First of all, thank you for the guide!

I'm having the same problem as Olmari in post #159, though I have a generic dual-port i226v NIC (pcie x1)
The update fails without much more detail. (same exact output)

The system is a Optiplex 3050, i tried both on Linux (with the linux utility) and on a OPNsense 25.7 live ISO.
Running it on OPNsense, the inventory option didn't work (while on linux it did).
But in both cases, the update does fail in the same way.

After the failed firmware upgrade (from version 1.17) the nic doesn't have any MACaddress and it needs a reboot (hot one is fine) to be recognised correctly again.

What can be the problem here?

Thank you

Do you have a Windows machine?  I tried under Linux and OPNsense and could not get it to work properly.  Finally booted into Windows and was able to get it to read the card and flash it. 

Mine is a generic two port card as well from AliExpress. 

#5

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: 25.7.11_2 - New devices do...

Last post by nero355 - February 11, 2026, 11:39:34 PM

Recently, however, I have noticed that new devices being added to the network (behind OpnSense) are not getting to the Internet for some reason.

All of my legacy devices work fine, however.

What kind of devices are we talking about ?

What does your network setup look like ?

#6

German - Deutsch / Re: Upgrade auf 26.1

Last post by k0ns0l3 - February 11, 2026, 11:36:31 PM

Es ist 2026. Ich gehe schlicht davon aus, dass ein FreeBSD-System mit ZFS läuft. Auch OPNsense.

also ZFS läuft 👍 Richtung Wochenende werde ich Upgrade machen, denke wird besser als letztes Mal. Bis jetzt hat jeder update gut geklappt nur 26.1 nicht 😬

Lg

#7

Hardware and Performance / Re: Warning about RealTek adap...

Last post by nero355 - February 11, 2026, 11:32:49 PM

In my X570 board, the PCIe 4.0 slots attached to the chipset have problems.

The X570 chipset was the first to use PCIe 4.0, so the implementation may be flaky.
At the time, nobody would have noticed, because most PCIe cards only supported PCIe 3.0 anyway.

IIRC there were plenty of websites that wrote a lot about that issue when the AMD Chipset was released ?!

IMHO a great part of the issues comes from the fact that ASMedia a.k.a. ASUS was involved in the design and manufacturing process of the Chipset at the time.

Do you have any Intel based systems to test with ?
I am pretty much done with buying AMD for about 15 years or so now...

#8

Hardware and Performance / Re: Warning about RealTek adap...

Last post by meyergru - February 11, 2026, 11:16:30 PM

Nope. In that BIOS, I can only set the PCIe speed for the CPU lanes and the chipset lanes separately, not per slot. And since the CPU lanes are solely used for the graphics card, I can only set all of the chipset lanes together, crippling my NVME drives.

Apart from that, I suspect that these problems are with the NICs - when you skim through the reports, you will find newer affected chipsets like X870. I doubt that my Asrock board is the culprit here and maybe even going back to PCIe 3.0 would not cut it.

After having seen these corruption problems and all my time invested chasing ghosts, I won't place any more bets on these things, either.

P.S.: I have an Aquantia here, as well. Never worked right. I even had a conversation with their CEO on that back in the day...

#9

26.1 Series / Re: IPv6 downstream router (Fr...

Last post by OPNenthu - February 11, 2026, 11:00:49 PM

A single /60 is just nasty and a reason to complain.

I hope a critical mass of such complaints comes forward, but unless more subscribers decide to ditch their WiFi routers and learn a bit about networking... I don't see it.

Maybe Google will force the issue :-)

I don't get it. It's not like IPv6 addresses were scarce ...

I came across one argument for this which claims that it mostly comes down to two things:

- Operational complexity for cable providers.  There's apparently some cost with mapping and tracking migratory prefixes on CMTS networks.

- Product differentiation so that business subscribers don't start complaining about why they pay more for a /48.

I can't verify these claims.  The second one is understandable.  The first one, if true, implies something about cable networks at scale.  It's interesting to note that Verizon (one of the large fiber ISPs here) do provide a /56 on their residential FiOS plans.

#10

Hardware and Performance / Re: Warning about RealTek adap...

Last post by pfry - February 11, 2026, 11:00:37 PM

I'd punish you by sending you all of my old Aquantia and Tehuti hardware, but the joke wouldn't be worth the ridiculous international shipping.

It might not be worth it, but you should be able to set the PCI-e version in the BIOS. (I can find it easily, but only if I'm looking at it.)