Thanks everyone for the help. I'm going to start with a ALIX.2C3 from Netgate when they are available next week. As they are more affordable than the FX5620 I'll be able to stock spares, though I do look forward to finding a stateside vendor for a 6 lan port model.

On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:

Jeremy Bennett wrote:
Anders,

Thank you for your firsthand account. I was looking at this unit, but concerned about the realtek nics... I've had problems with those in the past, but if it works for you, then I'm interested. Are you able to use each of the 6 lan ports on this unit as a different interface/subnet in PFsense? If so, PFsense makes this a heavy duty little box.

I stated it somewhere in a forum post recently I believe, the Realtek NIC's in embedded hardware always seem to be very reliable (contrary to some of the wide array of PCI cards with Realtek chipsets that are out there).

I have multiple embedded devices with Realtek NIC's from vendors on our recommended vendors page, including a FX5620, and they're all rock solid. I use mine as a VLAN router at home, trunk on the gig interface with other network segments coming into other interfaces.



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