On 2014-05-12 15:22, Martin Fuchs wrote:
I have used these (and the Dual-port Pro/1000 MT version) in pfSense
with no problems.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback!
The specific cards I'm looking at are listed on the HCL, but I've
learned the hard way that that doesn't always mean it actually works,
let alone is production ready. I had one motherboard with a supported
chipset, and dual onboard NICs with a supported chipset, but it turned
out only one NIC would work at a time due to limitations in the driver.
Oops.
I bought a replacement motherboard using a "supported" chipset, but it
turned out that FreeBSD's ACPI implementation was too buggy and would
eventually hang unless you could disable a certain ACPI feature in the
BIOS or tweak the kernel or boot options or something. The mobo didn't
offer a switch for that feature, and the tweaking required reached the
point of defeating the point of running a all-in-one package like pfSense.
The HCL is a great starting point, but I consider nearly all hardware to
be a gamble with FreeBSD until someone confirms it actually works in
pfSense out of the box.
As always, the community is what makes pfSense awesome, and again, I
really appreciate all the feedback.
--
Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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