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<blockquote data-quote="vivek.krishnan" data-source="post: 2350041" data-attributes="member: 33237"><p>Getting hold of these is not an issue - pricing is. If you had picked up earlier for 8K (which I believe was the price then), now they are nothing short of upwards of 12-15K. You need to look at server spares dealers.</p><p></p><p>I have just maybe 2 pcs of the quad port as spares with me, I think. I will need to check.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Its not about bandwidth only, additional features like hardware offload etc which will offload certain tasks to the NIC itself. Also, last time I checked, BSD had reliability issues with Realtek but this was due to version 11 of FreeBSD, but 12 had proper support for Realtek. I still prefer Intel over Realtek.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Reliability of the NIC (apart from the usual age factor) is mainly to do with where it was used and if there was any power surges etc. We used to run around a dozen pfsense firewalls and this was my experience.</p><p></p><p></p><p>These are 4 NICs in a single package. You can keep each on its own network (for multiple LANs OR multiple WANs) but would need to use a proper OS which can do this. For example, you can use Sophos/Untangle Home editions OR pfsense/opnsense/openwrt/Nethserver/Zentyal OR even roll your Linux distro and do iptables.</p><p></p><p>I am assuming here aggregate means you want to use multiple internet connections into ONE - you will need to use roundrobin on a router level OR you can install a software like Speedify or ConnectifyMAX on Windows. Failover will require it to be done at router level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vivek.krishnan, post: 2350041, member: 33237"] Getting hold of these is not an issue - pricing is. If you had picked up earlier for 8K (which I believe was the price then), now they are nothing short of upwards of 12-15K. You need to look at server spares dealers. I have just maybe 2 pcs of the quad port as spares with me, I think. I will need to check. Its not about bandwidth only, additional features like hardware offload etc which will offload certain tasks to the NIC itself. Also, last time I checked, BSD had reliability issues with Realtek but this was due to version 11 of FreeBSD, but 12 had proper support for Realtek. I still prefer Intel over Realtek. Reliability of the NIC (apart from the usual age factor) is mainly to do with where it was used and if there was any power surges etc. We used to run around a dozen pfsense firewalls and this was my experience. These are 4 NICs in a single package. You can keep each on its own network (for multiple LANs OR multiple WANs) but would need to use a proper OS which can do this. For example, you can use Sophos/Untangle Home editions OR pfsense/opnsense/openwrt/Nethserver/Zentyal OR even roll your Linux distro and do iptables. I am assuming here aggregate means you want to use multiple internet connections into ONE - you will need to use roundrobin on a router level OR you can install a software like Speedify or ConnectifyMAX on Windows. Failover will require it to be done at router level. [/QUOTE]
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