@dobby_ said in Yea yea I know, RealTek isn't reliable on PFSense..:
It all depends also on the support from the company
that is producing that card and how open they are to the open source community, or how much they are willing
that others write drivers for their devices.
RealTek has drivers for FreeBSD - that are updated - here: https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software
So they are available for compiling and inclusion into FreeBSD and therefore should be part of PFSense updates, no?
NB: OPNSense provides updated drivers. There is also a plug-in that you can install for RealTek support.
To solve my problem I downloaded the RealTek kernel module from OPNSense and installed it. I mean, if they can do it.. ?
https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/snapshots/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-196.04.txz ; pkg install -f -y realtek-re-kmod-196.04.txz
Maybe the answer is for the vast number of RealTek cards out there and the people using them, to just use OPNSense.