Agere ET-131x Gigabit Ethernet Chipset

[stenio]

Hello,

Do you know if with the latest versions of pfsense the support for this NIC is better?
With pfsense V2.0 my Fabiatech FX5621 crashes after a few minutes with the gigabit NICs enabled.

Thanks,
Stenio

[jimp]

The base OS on pfSense 2.1.x is FreeBSD 8.3, whereas on 2.0.x it was FreeBSD 8.1. So the drivers are likely to be newer and perhaps behave better, but without digging through FreeBSD's source to compare between those versions it's tough to say exactly what if anything changed in the driver.

pfSense 2.2 is based on FreeBSD 10.x and is even more likely to work well on that hardware, but it's still some distance from release or production quality yet.

You're better off spending a few more bucks on known-good hardware (e.g. Intel NICs) than trying to hope an off-brand works well.