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[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wish they didn't. DIY opnsense/pfsense boxes are much harder for finding compatible NICs because they're on BSD. Conversely, used enterprise-level NICs often have better drivers on Linux than Windows.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

usually if it doesn't have good working drivers on BSD, there's a good reason and it's probably better that you didn't use that hardware in the first place. if it was a well-established, reliable adapter then typically it would already have a driver.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about an HP NC523SFP? Keep in mind, this is HP enterprise stuff, not consumer level. Dual SFP+, pulled from server hardware. Doesn't work on FreeBSD.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Google is telling me that's not true and that the qlxgb driver for it has existed for years