Updated Unix Realtek Drivers (1.96.04)

[MartB]

Still fine so far, did anyone else test this?
Runs stable and i pushed it through quite some config cycles and hundreds of gigabytes by now.

[jbergler]

Been running 20.7.2-netmap for these drivers pretty happily for a bit now.

[franco]

For 20.7.3 this won't be released, but a 20.7.3-netmap kernel exists for compatibility.

The next kernel after that will likely merge the "-netmap" content including the Realtek update.

Thanks for all the feedback so far!


Cheers,
Franco

[va176thunderbolt]

Been running 20.7.2-netmap for these drivers and haven't experienced any issues. Have Suricata running on three interfaces, one with several vlans.

[MartB]

Minor update: Still going strong so far on the latest netmap kernel. 300GB in 18 days and no weird issues encountered.

[foresthus]

Hi,
I have read a lot about the problems with realtek drivers and opnsense. Is the Problem really at this point? Or could it be, that the addon from sunvally (sensei) causes the problem iwth their netmap-implemantation? In my hardware I am using there is this hardware-nic: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The performance is going down after installing sensei.

Before I have a download my rate was:
Download 550MBit and Upload 98Mbit
This is the hardware: AMD and opnsense and realtek-NIC: Probe URL: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=4f3f6a4102

So without sensei everything is OK.

Please look here: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=22019.msg110532#msg110532