I can't speak for Netgate directly on this, I wasn't involved in that decision.

Personally I prefer Intel because you're not paying for features that pfSense can't use. Both in money and power consumption/heat. In FreeNAS that's different. I imagine they might well use the TCP offloading the Chelsio NICs offer. Though I've never looked into it.

More cooling never hurts!

Steve

@stephenw10

Thanks Steve, I was planing to use one for wired subnet and the other for wireless subnet and the onboard for external since it’s 1G the onboard is capable of 2.5G.

Joe

What exactly is the issue you;re seeing here? Some graphics output issue?

Generally you do not need a monitor attached to pfSense so an AIO style box isn't a good target.

Steve

I'm going back to the drawing board. I think at this point I should stick with something Intel based. Thanks for all the replies.

Do you have a switch between the modem and pfSense?

I would expect power cycling the modem to restore the connection if ifconfig donw/up works.

Steve

The message is pretty clear, you can't use traffic shaping on ixl interfaces.

Next time check the supported devices on altq before you buy a NIC.

Like an i3-8100t? Then yes. Easily.

Steve