D-Link DGE-528T B1 and PFSense 2.1
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Dear all,
I am installing PFSense 2.1, after finding out that my NIC was not supported in previous versions.
Guess what? - same happened in 2.1
I am using 3 NICs DGE-528T and non is detected.
There are some other posts regarding the same issue in 2.0.1 - I am not siure it is the same thing. Drivers where update in 2.1 - so its suppose to be safe to use this NIC.
Can someone have some hints…?
Thanks
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Not sure about the driver issue, but I can tell you that if you push that hard at all your PCI bus is going to instantly max out.
Do you have any PCIe slots empty?
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At the moment, just for testing, I have most PCI empty.
Out of 6 PCI:
#2 is the 528
and #6 is a old 10\100the old 10\100 one is working fine.
In any case, my intention is to put 3 NICs, and the other 3 will stay empty.
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Ok - It will work just fine on PCI you just can't push 1GB on more than one NIC.
So, for example, since 1 PCI port get you a little bit more than 1GB throughput but also nearly totally maxes out your total system PCI bus, you would not be able to get anywhere near 1GB throughput from 1 NIC to another NIC (Lets say 2 LANs).
Other than that, PCI is solid.
I doubt seriously anyone can do anything about your driver issue though. Better to just grab some dirt cheap used intel NICs off ebay.
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That looks like it should be a Realtek chip, is that right?
Careful with your bits and Bytes there! ;)
Steve
