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Even older thread now, however....
I have been using a Zimaboard 432 for well over 9 months now without any real issues. There *IS* a fix for the onboard Realtek nics in the form of the os-realtek-re plugin (system-->firmware-->plugins). That plugin carries the official drivers from Realtek, meaning you no longer have to rely on the buggy BSD drivers, which should singlehandedly fix the reliability issues.
The other thing to note is that if you want to get full performance out of the NICs (around 940Mbps in my case), you will want to make sure offloading is turned off. IIRC, that was on the interfaces-->settings page.
Other than that, this thing has been completely solid for me. Looking back on it, I probably would have splurged a few extra $$ to get the 832 for the extra memory headroom, but I can't say that the 4GB of memory has been an issue for me so far.
I have been using a Zimaboard 432 for well over 9 months now without any real issues. There *IS* a fix for the onboard Realtek nics in the form of the os-realtek-re plugin (system-->firmware-->plugins). That plugin carries the official drivers from Realtek, meaning you no longer have to rely on the buggy BSD drivers, which should singlehandedly fix the reliability issues.
The other thing to note is that if you want to get full performance out of the NICs (around 940Mbps in my case), you will want to make sure offloading is turned off. IIRC, that was on the interfaces-->settings page.
Other than that, this thing has been completely solid for me. Looking back on it, I probably would have splurged a few extra $$ to get the 832 for the extra memory headroom, but I can't say that the 4GB of memory has been an issue for me so far.
