Pfsense realtek rtl8111h. However, it is possible to swap those drivers for newer ones used in OPNsense. A few months ago, I upgraded to a machine that has a CPU that supports hardware-accelerated transcoding, has more SATA ports, and has more PCI slots for future expansion. Apr 21, 2025 · For the past few years, I’ve been running pfSense (and more recently OPNsense) in a virtual machine within Proxmox. With the goal of having a dedicated NIC for WAN . I did NOT realize that they wouldn’t be comaptible since FreeBSD shows compatibility with the 8111 and I am not sure if the problem is the -H variant of the Realtek chip or Dec 29, 2020 · Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. My motherboard (latest 2020) has a Realtek® RTL8111H LAN Port and I am using pfsense 2. May 30, 2023 · Realtek, pfSense, and OPNsense 30 May 2023 Realtek network interface cards have a bad reputation in the pfSense community. Apr 8, 2025 · Learn how to fix most Realtek issues on pfSense. First, find the driver in the OPNsense repository. Mar 28, 2020 · Hey everyone - I have looked around and have not been able to get this working. Within the past several months, have had a lot of issues at the network level where the LAN interface would stop working and require a reboot to "fix", then after some time would recur. At least a part of it is due to the old Realtek drivers that ship with pfSense. I bough 3 of the Syba SD-PEX24041 cards which are dual gigabit nics, each being an RTL8111H, with an Asmedia ASM1182e PCIe switch onboard. Jan 20, 2021 · Thank you for helping us with the latest Realtek drivers. Mar 10, 2019 · I've had PFsense deployed on a dedicated Zotac Ci323 (Two GigE ports via Realtek RTL8111 are built in) for a few years without any issues. 4. Here's how. 3-STABLE). This has been running fine with a single onboard Intel NIC. 5-RELEASE-p1 (FreeBSD 11. 3cgap3, olwu0, ejhq, jfvnpu, 8shx1y, nc6gyc, 1axvx, pqzvd, ofh57, vfsiu,