2.5 GBit/s NICs information

[A Former User]

Hello together,

• ISPs are offering modem (ONTs) with 2.5 GBit/s ports

• Some NAS vendors were also offering such ports often

• Switch vendors are offering switches with 2.5 GBit/s ports

• PC vendors sorting mainboards with 2.5 GBit/s ports

• NIC vendors are supporting more often 2.5 GBit/s

To combine some information about the Intel I225 chipset was driving me to open that thread here.

Available addon NICs I found
One port 2.5 GBit/s NIC (amazon.de) for ~20 €
Speed 10/100/1000/2500 MBit/s
Vendor Sinobright
Chip Intel I225-V

QNAP QXG-2G1T-I225
One port 2.5 GBit/s NIC (amazon.de) for ~40 €
Speed 10/100/1000/2500 MBit/s
Vendor QNAP
Chip Intel I225-LM

Intel I225-T1
One port 2.5 GBit/s NIC (jacob.de) ~60 €
Speed 10/100/1000/2500 MBit/s
PXE support, WoL support
Vendor Intel
Chip I225

FreeBSD igc (4) driver summary:
igc(4): Introduce new driver for the Intel I225 Ethernet…
Driver for the Intel I225 2.5G ethernet controller.

This driver is based on code originally written by Intel and
converted to use the iflib interface by Netgate.

pfSense/ FreeBSD -src on GitHub
pfSense Version 2.6 devel information about

FreeBSD Forum thread
How to get hands on it and install or load it

Updated: adding cards pictures

[stevemosher]

Thanks for this information as we try and get this sorted with 2.5.2. We tried the Realtek cards and they are just garbage. Im not smart enough the read the BSD sites (just confusing me) for the 45 bucks USD we'll buy one and throw it in the system.

Wish me luck

[A Former User]

@stevemosher
All the three examples (NICs) I named above are only
sorted with an Intel 255 Chip in three different versions
for sure, but only Intel branded! So you may be more future proof for pfSense version 2.6 and above.

[stevemosher]

@dobby_

Thank you

After the upgrade from 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 Im a bit shy. Just wrecked our OpenVPN setups here.

We'll build a 2.6.x and test. Again I appreciate your input.