I realize this is like drawing a conjuring circle for nerds on the floor, but: If I wanted to build a pfSense box for my gigabit-internet home office network... what's a good bit of hardware for that these days?
Apparently the Intel i225 series of NICs had serious stability problems until the B3 stepping so you might see advertisements for "4x i225-B3" even though there is officially no such designation. The i226/i226-V is apparently just a bugfixed i225.
Ben Zanin
in reply to Les Orchard • • •ServeTheHome has a whole series about this class of device! E.g. servethehome.com/new-fanless-4…
Apparently the Intel i225 series of NICs had serious stability problems until the B3 stepping so you might see advertisements for "4x i225-B3" even though there is officially no such designation. The i226/i226-V is apparently just a bugfixed i225.
If you're looking for a good WiFi AP to complement it, @geerlingguy recently posted youtu.be/TdUxWEyafUg#t=2m48s
New Fanless 4x 2.5GbE Intel N5105 i226-V Firewall Tested
Rohit Kumar (ServeTheHome)Jeff Geerling
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