Moving from Arista (Untangle) to Opnsense NIC Question

[snakeyes75]

HI all,

I am looking to move from Arista to Opnsense soon.   I am running Arista on a i3 Dell Optiplex with 16 GB RAM and 128 SSD with a quad 2.5G nic (RTL8125).   I created a bootable USB with opnsense to see if it would work.  I ran the system in live mode, but it does not detect the quad nic, only the builtin Intel onboard network card.  I attached an USB Ethernet to see if I can install the drivers for the quad but no luck.   This is the card that I have https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SS8GVHC?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1 (SI-PEX24077)   Does anyone know if this can work with Opnsense?  I

[meyergru]

Both Realtek and USB cards are badly supported with FreeBSD. There is a plugin with a Realtek OEM driver, but you will have to install it first, which is tedious without a working network connection in the first place.

Also, even the OEM driver is not guaranteed to work.

Does the Optiplex really have no single Intel card?

[snakeyes75]

It has a working Intel 1G port.

[meyergru]

Then you should configure that as the LAN and use your exiting router to get internet access to install the Realtek driver plugin and test if it works for you.

[snakeyes75]

After the update and installing os-realtek-re ;  it found the quad network card.  I have to look at all the devices I reserved IPs for and the rules that I have setup and in sometime in July I will fully start using this instead of untangle.