<div dir="ltr">I know that Realtek and FreeBSD at times don't get along. I had issues with pfSense and realtek. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM Calvin Harrigan via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">They generally do work, but Realtek is on the low end and generally <br>
struggles to maintain throughput and generally puts a heavier load on <br>
the CPU. Doesn't offload much. I like to think of them as WIN NICs in <br>
the same vain as WIN Modems and WIN Printers back in the day.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 7/3/2025 12:52 PM, Bob Toxen wrote:<br>
> Do these work with Linux?<br>
><br>
> Why so against Realtek?<br>
><br>
> I've been using them (10 & 100 Mbit) for 20-30 years with Linux with<br>
> with zero problems.<br>
><br>
> Bob<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 11:41:50AM -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:<br>
>> On 7/3/2025 11:28 AM, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:<br>
>>> On 7/2/25 17:31, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:<br>
>>>> Microcenter Duluth perhaps Marietta as well have 99 cents gigabit<br>
>>>> network cards.<br>
>>> Brand and chips used??? It matters.?? I won't touch realtek NICs.<br>
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>> Seems the cards are:<br>
>><br>
>> HiRO H50218 10/100/1000 Internal PCI Express with Realtek Chipsets.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.microcenter.com/product/680735/hiro-h50218-10-100-1000-internal-pci-express" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.microcenter.com/product/680735/hiro-h50218-10-100-1000-internal-pci-express</a><br>
>><br>
>> A slightly deeper dig indicates the chipset might specifically be Realtek<br>
>> RTL8111E.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd use these for playing around, not for anything of even the slightest<br>
>> importance.<br>
>><br>
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