10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express NIC Network Card with Intel I210 Chip, Ethernet Server Converged Network Adapter, Single RJ45 Port, PCI Express 2.1 X1, Compare to Intel I210-T1

Very good product and working fine with pfsense and good performance with suricata IPS inline mode.pciconf -lcv #Output of pciconf command on freebsd.igb2@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00vendor = 'Intel Corporation'device = '82576 Gigabit Network Connection'class = networksubclass = ethernetcap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector maskscap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages, enabledTable in map 0x1c[0x0], PBA in map 0x1c[0x2000]cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(512) FLRlink x1(x4) speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1)ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 correctedecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 6cb311ffff1b17c0ecap 000e[150] = ARI 1ecap 0010[160] = SR-IOV 1 IOV disabled, Memory Space disabled, ARI disabled0 VFs configured out of 8 supportedFirst VF RID Offset 0x0180, VF RID Stride 0x0002VF Device ID 0x10caPage Sizes: 4096 (enabled), 8192, 65536, 262144, 1048576, 4194304igb3@pci0:3:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00vendor = 'Intel Corporation'device = '82576 Gigabit Network Connection'class = networksubclass = ethernetcap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector maskscap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages, enabledTable in map 0x1c[0x0], PBA in map 0x1c[0x2000]cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(512) FLRlink x1(x4) speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1)ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 correctedecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 6cb311ffff1b17c0ecap 000e[150] = ARI 1ecap 0010[160] = SR-IOV 1 IOV disabled, Memory Space disabled, ARI disabled0 VFs configured out of 8 supportedFirst VF RID Offset 0x0180, VF RID Stride 0x0002VF Device ID 0x10caPage Sizes: 4096 (enabled), 8192, 65536, 262144, 1048576, 4194304

In my homelab, I have a pretty robust server based around Proxmox 7.1, an AMD 5950X and 128GB of RAM. It's a sweet little playground. I wanted to play around with virtualized firewalls, particularly PFSense. The cheapest way I could find to do it was by adding NIC's to my existing server.I selected this dual NIC primarily because it used an x1 PCIe interface. My mainboard has two of these slots. The 4 port version is an x4 PCIe and my mainboard has none of these, meaning I'd have to use the x16 slot. I generally prefer to reserve my higher end x16 PCI slots for more capable hardware, not a basic 1G multi-NIC.Install was standard PCIe, about as simple as it gets. I read the reviews indicating compatibility with Proxmox and I can attest that it works well in my 7.1 build. I had the typical issue where Linux's dynamic network interface monitoring feature jacked up my interface name and bridge configuration. Easily fixed with a trip to /etc/network/interfaces though. (And to be sure, this is a Linux issue, not a hardware one.)I've had my setup going for a few months now with no troubles. I don't know much about this network card, such as who makes it or where to get drivers that I didn't need in Proxmox. That hasn't seemed to matter. Oh, and if you're interested in virtualized firewalls, I'd encourage you to explore it. I've had a lot of fun with PFSense so far.

Not a technical review but my experience from being a sudo-tech. I have a TrueNAS only to host content for Plex. If Plex wasn’t a thing I would never have built two machines over the last seven years. The first one was dated two years ago easily so I had to upgrade. I bought a older MB but still lights out better than before- a ASRock B550 Pro4. What I didn’t know was that MB has a RealTek ethernet chip. I pulled everything in and all was well. I went to move data and my network started to drop. After seeing that I saw an error on the TrueNAS about the network. After researching the problem was the RealTek 2.5. I then bought an Intel 2.5 and found that those don’t have proper driver so that was returned. Then I found reviews about this 1G card and bought it. Immediately plugged in and worked with no extra effort from me. Moved big data files with no errors. I was relieved. How long will this last? I will see. I wish I could have gotten the 2.5G to work to stay up to date but that is fine. On to the next problem!

I bought the mini-PCIe card with LEDs. It came as a complete kit in a tidy box with screws, back plates, and even a screwdriver. The quality looks good, and it was well packaged.The only issue is that the 10Gtek web site has no manuals. While there are white triangles showing pin 1, they're tiny, and they only show pin 1 for the data cable, not the LED cable. Luckily, the four pin LED cable had the same orientation, although you need to be aware that pin 1 of the data cable is right next to the LED cable pins on the ethernet card (there's a gap between the two making it clearer on the RJ45 board).Other than that, I got the impression that this was well made and have had no issues using it.

Works great, native drivers in win10, server, and Linux 5.22+

This item works as intended