10GbE NIC Recommendation?

[eptesicus]

I'm currently working on segregating my network into various vlans/subnets. I have a 10GbE Ubiquiti switch and an Asus RS200-E9-PS2 server that I'm using for my firewall. In my quest for network segregation with 10GbE, I learned that because my gateways are on the firewall, with a 1GbE connection, I'll be limited to 1GbE between devices on vlans that do communicate with each other.

With that said, I've had success with Mellanox Connectx-2s and 3s for SFP+ NICs in ESXi, Debian/Ubuntu, but don't know if these will work with OPNsense/FreeBSD? Can anyone confirm or recommend an SFP+ or RJ45 10GbE alternative?

Thanks!

[mimugmail]

ConnectX-3 and up will work with 19.1.
Intel X520 are also pretty stable ...

[eptesicus]

I'm assuming that the X540-T2 cards work as well? If I can utilize the RJ45 10GbE NICs on my switch, maybe that's the way to go....

[mimugmail]

No idea, I only know X710 sucks :)

[eptesicus]

Is that from personal experience or are they not supported?

[mimugmail]

Personal experience. Most Intel cards are supported, also most Chelsio and Mellanox with 19.1

[aponomarenko]

Try to find in the new FreeBSD hardware database (new-gen bsdstats): https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=search&name=10-Gigabit&typeid=network

[Supermule]

I use X710-T4 in VmWare environments and they work great.

Home lab is X540-T2 and they have no issues besides netmap errors when running inline IDS.