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For the past few years, I've been running pfSense (and more recently OPNsense) in a virtual machine within Proxmox. This has been running fine with a single onboard Intel NIC. 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. With the goal of having a dedicated NIC for WAN, I bought an inexpensive 1Gbps PCIe NIC (TG-3468) despite reading about some of the concerns around Realtek NICs (sluggish performance, driver instability, and in some cases system crashes).
I've been running a Realtek NICs reliably on Linux and Windows desktops, so I figured I could make it work without too much effort, but it turns out Realtek NICs really can be problematic when it comes to FreeBSD-based routers, and some commonly documented workarounds did not solve my problems.
I've been running a Realtek NICs reliably on Linux and Windows desktops, so I figured I could make it work without too much effort, but it turns out Realtek NICs really can be problematic when it comes to FreeBSD-based routers, and commonly documented workarounds did not solve my problems.
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My environment consists of:
- Proxmox 8.4
- OPNsense 25.1 (Virtual Machine)
- OPNsense 25.1 (QEMU VM)
- Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM
- Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
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I added the PCI device and restarted the OPNsense VM and re-configured the WAN in OPNsense to use this device.
I received the WAN IP and everything appeared to be working. I ran a few speed tests and noticed that the download speeds were a lot lower than normal on multiple devices. I checked my instance of [speedtest-tracker](https://docs.speedtest-tracker.dev) noticed that the download speeds were significantly slower than historical records:
I received the WAN IP and everything appeared to be working. I ran a few speed tests and noticed that the download speeds were much lower than normal from all of my devices. I checked my instance of [speedtest-tracker](https://docs.speedtest-tracker.dev) noticed that the download speeds were significantly slower than historical records:
![speedtest-tracker](./speedtest-tracker.png)