State of Broadcom 10/25GbE NICs on FreeBSD and *sense?

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I'm planning on acquiring or building new hypervisor host in next year or two, virtualized Opnsense with SR-IOV passthrough will be one of the guests. It appears to me that many servers and motherboards being offered right now have built-in Broadcom SFP+/SFP28 NIC.

I'm aware that Intel NICs are still best, but i would have to buy additional NIC and leave built in ports unused.

So, are the drivers for Broadcom NIC are 'good enough' for Opnsense at the moment or in next couple of years? Specifically, i'm referring to BCM5741x series.

Thanks for any insight  :)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You might want to watch this discussion:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245981

[vpx]

This article (German) mentions, that there will be some bnxt driver fix in OPNsense 23.10 (FreeBSD 13.2).

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Broadcom_BCM574xx_VLAN_Treiberproblem_unter_FreeBSD_13.2_mit_bnxt_Treiber