10Gtek 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

When building a Linux system the last thing you want to deal with is weird drivers. So I always look for Intel or Broadcom chipsets in ethernet cards. Intel chipsets in particular are pretty much guaranteed to work. Most of the servers I build have Intel I350 ethernet cards for a reason. They're fast, reliable, and use the rock-solid "igb" driver that you can be absolutely certain will be included in the stock kernel from any Linux distributionThe I350 controller chip has been in production since 2011 and Intel plans to manufacture it through 2031. It's fast, reliable, inexpensive, and uses only 2.8W of power. Those features, combined with the high availability of the chip has made it ubiquitous on server motherboards. As a result it's extremely well supported by any operating system you might want to use.Thie PCI interface on the card identifies itself as being built by Beijing Sinead Technology Co. The ethernet MAC address has the correct prefix (98:b7:85) for Shenzhen 10Gtek Transceivers, which matches the name of the seller on Amazon. That's always a good sign; they're using properly assigned MAC addresses rather than just cloning some other card.The card appears to be identical to the I350 cards sold by Intel. The only difference is the price, which is less than half what Intel charges.I'll probably buy more of these in the future. Great pricing and like the other 10Gtek products I've purchased in the past it's a solid product.

I am using the network board in a running a pfSense firewall. It is providing firewall services for a medium size public library. Just a bit of volunteerism, so I appreacated the extremely rea.sonable price!Since the board features an Intel chipset, it is highly compatible with both pfSense (which does not like realtek network cards). The board has performed flawlessly.

Working in a headless ubuntu os

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

First, let me say that this is a good product. I used it to take advantage of SMB Multichannel between my main Windows PC and my FreeBSD based TrueNAS box. The card was recognized right out of the box on both OSs. The included driver cd does not seem to actually do anything, and the included Intel Proset LAN utility software cannot be used to control the ports. Its nothing you cant do in device manager in Windows, but it is wierd.One huge thing to take into account with this card is that the 1.25Gbps bandwidth is shared between the two network ports. Meaning that you can get at most 154MBps out of it. If you need a multi port NIC, look at server specific hardware.