10Gtek 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express NIC Network Card with Intel(R) 82573 Controller, Ethernet Server Converged Network Adapter, Single RJ-45, Support Windows Server/Freebsd/VMware

I bought the mini-PCIe card with LEDs. It came as a complete kit in a tidy box with screws, back plates, and even a screwdriver. The quality looks good, and it was well packaged.The only issue is that the 10Gtek web site has no manuals. While there are white triangles showing pin 1, they're tiny, and they only show pin 1 for the data cable, not the LED cable. Luckily, the four pin LED cable had the same orientation, although you need to be aware that pin 1 of the data cable is right next to the LED cable pins on the ethernet card (there's a gap between the two making it clearer on the RJ45 board).Other than that, I got the impression that this was well made and have had no issues using it.

If you're looking for a card that works with pfsense but dont wanna spend a ton, here it is. This card was immediately recognized by pfsense and worked out of the box.

I had 10GTek 1gb SFPs in a media converter already, so wanted to be sure of compatibility when I built a computer for my new pfSense firewall. pfSense recognized and used the card immediately with no issues. The other end is in an HP managed switch with 2 SFP slots and I had zero configuration needed to make everything work. It's been running my network for a couple months now and I have had no issues of any kind. I recommend 10GTek products.

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=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82576 Gigabit Network Connection' class = network subclass = ethernet cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages, enabled Table in map 0x1c[0x0], PBA in map 0x1c[0x2000] cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(512) FLR link x1(x4) speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1) ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected ecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 6cb311ffff1b17c0 ecap 000e[150] = ARI 1 ecap 0010[160] = SR-IOV 1 IOV disabled, Memory Space disabled, ARI disabled 0 VFs configured out of 8 supported First VF RID Offset 0x0180, VF RID Stride 0x0002 VF Device ID 0x10ca Page Sizes: 4096 (enabled), 8192, 65536, 262144, 1048576, 4194304igb3@pci0:3:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82576 Gigabit Network Connection' class = network subclass = ethernet cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages, enabled Table in map 0x1c[0x0], PBA in map 0x1c[0x2000] cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(512) FLR link x1(x4) speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1) ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected ecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 6cb311ffff1b17c0 ecap 000e[150] = ARI 1 ecap 0010[160] = SR-IOV 1 IOV disabled, Memory Space disabled, ARI disabled 0 VFs configured out of 8 supported First VF RID Offset 0x0180, VF RID Stride 0x0002 VF Device ID 0x10ca Page Sizes: 4096 (enabled), 8192, 65536, 262144, 1048576, 4194304

Works great, native drivers in win10, server, and Linux 5.22+

Not a technical review but my experience from being a sudo-tech. I have a TrueNAS only to host content for Plex. If Plex wasn’t a thing I would never have built two machines over the last seven years. The first one was dated two years ago easily so I had to upgrade. I bought a older MB but still lights out better than before- a ASRock B550 Pro4. What I didn’t know was that MB has a RealTek ethernet chip. I pulled everything in and all was well. I went to move data and my network started to drop. After seeing that I saw an error on the TrueNAS about the network. After researching the problem was the RealTek 2.5. I then bought an Intel 2.5 and found that those don’t have proper driver so that was returned. Then I found reviews about this 1G card and bought it. Immediately plugged in and worked with no extra effort from me. Moved big data files with no errors. I was relieved. How long will this last? I will see. I wish I could have gotten the 2.5G to work to stay up to date but that is fine. On to the next problem!

The Intel 82573 PCI Express NIC installed easily into a PCIe slot on my ASUS ROG Maximus 10 Hero motherboard. Windows 11 recognized it on first boot without any fuss. The card came with an Intel CD which had support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows server 2003, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows server 2008, Windows server 2012, Windows server 2016, and MAC OS. Note that it did not have a driver specifically for Windows 11 but my Win 10 with a pushed Win 11 upgrade was happy with whatever the Intel driver update program installed. The throughput of the card is far better with sustained transfers across my LAN than the motherboard's integrated RealTek network interface.You get a lot of bang for your bucks with this Intel NIC. Props to the vendor and Amazon who delivered the card a day early! No regrets at all with this deal.

Used this in a PCIe 1x slot on an old MSI motherboard for an Oracle Linux 9.4 KVM and iscsi lab setup. Need the dual ports for using multipath with iscsi SAN targets on my Synology NAS.

Lo puedes utilizar para instalar VMWare ESXI 7.0

La tajerta funciona tiene 2 puertos independientes, pero no importa si usas linux o windows, la tajeta dice que puede funcionar a 1gigabit, pero jamas enlaza a 1gbit, enlaza a 100mbit, ahi mismo donde otras tarjetas funcionan bien a 1gbit, esta no.

Las PCs de ahora cada vez tienen menos puertos PCI y yo que necesitaba múltiples puertos de red, me ayudó bastante este producto. Lo mejor es que puede trabajar con PCs normales y su sistema operativo Win7 o Win10 o hasta Win11

I have purchased 3 of these at this point. Works like a charm!

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