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Title: Best Nic Card
Post by: xames on December 16, 2018, 03:27:43 pm
Please anyone knows wich are the bests nics pci brand to buy to work on opnsense?


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Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: GDixon on December 16, 2018, 05:11:52 pm
intel
Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: xames on December 16, 2018, 05:20:18 pm
Ok thanks


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Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: GDixon on December 17, 2018, 02:57:00 am
do a search here on intel mics and you will find some specific model numbers
Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: Antaris on January 06, 2019, 07:04:14 pm
Here is a thread with good content about NICs:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/ (https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/)
Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: ljrickwood on January 12, 2019, 06:49:59 pm
Network cards that use an Intel chipset, and preferably are also built by Intel, appear to be the most reliable option with OPNSense, and with Linux and BSD in general. In particular, in my experience, only Intel chipsets work correctly with OPNSense in the case of multi-port NICs.

In addition, OPNSense (Linux/BSD) seems to be able to make use of the hardware offload capabilities of Intel chipsets, but not those of many other vendors.
Title: Re: Best Nic Card
Post by: franco on January 13, 2019, 11:13:13 am
Realtek isn't so bad with the original vendor driver that we have since almost two years. Netmap mode (intrusion detection IPS mode) is emulated, but it's reliable.


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Franco