@stephenw10 Thank you sir! I know I might be one of the only ones in my boat deciding to add a Realtek NIC to a Netgate box just for the hell of it but it has been rock stable as my WAN port for over a year in the past and has been my LAN port the last couple to match up with my 2.5Gb switches, haven't ran into any issues with using it for either otherwise other than at that moment of upgrade, at the time didn't really seem like it was worth submitting a TAC ticket for since once you are inside of pfSense using one of the former images its easy enough to get working, migrating to using the Netgate Installer pretty well puts a halt at that very step without additional financial and hardware resources. Always happen to spot the random posts on Reddit occasionally from our next generation of techs and others whom are getting themselves motivated into entering or changing paths in the IT worlds wanting to experiment around with what they have available to them which is often some form of laptop or retired gaming rig of sorts and with Realtek cards more common than any of us wish they were since many of these boards have one soldered on board an un-replaceable without using an often highly not recommended USB-network adapter to accommodate, on a common high-schooler or college students kind of financial budget that can be an entirely unbearable task.
