[ale] Ot: cheap lan cards

[Chuck Payne]

I know that Realtek and FreeBSD at times don't get along.  I had issues
with pfSense and realtek.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM Calvin Harrigan via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> They generally do work, but Realtek is on the low end and generally
> struggles to maintain throughput and generally puts a heavier load on
> the CPU.  Doesn't offload much. I like to think of them as WIN NICs in
> the same vain as WIN Modems and WIN Printers back in the day.
>
>
> On 7/3/2025 12:52 PM, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > Do these work with Linux?
> >
> > Why so against Realtek?
> >
> > I've been using them (10 & 100 Mbit) for 20-30 years with Linux with
> > with zero problems.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 11:41:50AM -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:
> >> On 7/3/2025 11:28 AM, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> >>> On 7/2/25 17:31, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> >>>> Microcenter Duluth perhaps Marietta as well have 99 cents gigabit
> >>>> network cards.
> >>> Brand and chips used??? It matters.?? I won't touch realtek NICs.
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> >> Seems the cards are:
> >>
> >> HiRO H50218 10/100/1000 Internal PCI Express with Realtek Chipsets.
> >>
> >>
> https://www.microcenter.com/product/680735/hiro-h50218-10-100-1000-internal-pci-express
> >>
> >> A slightly deeper dig indicates the chipset might specifically be
> Realtek
> >> RTL8111E.
> >>
> >> I'd use these for playing around, not for anything of even the slightest
> >> importance.
> >>
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