Do you think these are any good?
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Hi all.
I've been looking for affordable cards to use to create some routers and found some cards that seem way too cheap considering they claim to have Intel Chipsets. I know people here like the Intel Chipset for speeds under 10G so, while I have had success with Marvell Yukon and Broadcom I'd like to try to use Intel. The cards are unbranded and from China (nothing against China but there are large amounts of counterfeiters out there just ask Apple). Do you think they're valid? Is there any way to check if the chipset is Intel?
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/INTEL-8492MT-1000-MT-Gigabit-Dual-Port-Server-Adapter-PCI-PCI-X-Network-Card-NIC-/262009843794?hash=item3d0100f052:g:LlMAAOSwMmBV0qKL
What do you think?
Thanks
Joe
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I would be careful buying stuff like that.
The card in the picture is a PCI-X interface. However in the specs he calls it a PCI Express x4. It's possible it could be a typo but still if you look harder you might find more inconsistencies in the posting.
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What do you think?
You even get what you pay for!
Go to amazon.com and have a look to used or refurbished Intel dual or Quad port NICs
that are originals and well supported under pfSense. They are starting at ~$40 - ~$150.But then you get often original spare parts and you have something like a RMA policy from
amazon.com and often in the reviews something about pfSense will be written.