<story><title>Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&amp;t=32536</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fake-name</author><text>Nope, both NICs are Realtek. It&amp;#x27;ll make a great flaming pile of shit.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had realtek network hardware that wasn&amp;#x27;t unstable under load on linux.</text></item><item><author>mrpippy</author><text>With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense&amp;#x2F;OpenBSD router.&lt;p&gt;Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but that’s the price of Intel. Great to see a well-known boardmaker coming out with an up-to-date x86 option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osivertsson</author><text>Which Realtek Ethernet NICs are we talking about?&lt;p&gt;For me they have been rock-solid using Debian for many years across different generations of Realtek NICs.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I have experienced no end of issues with Intel 82574L, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.krisk.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;packets-of-death.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.krisk.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;packets-of-death.html&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.launchpad.net&amp;#x2F;ubuntu&amp;#x2F;+source&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;+bug&amp;#x2F;1730550&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.launchpad.net&amp;#x2F;ubuntu&amp;#x2F;+source&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;+bug&amp;#x2F;1730550&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&amp;t=32536</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fake-name</author><text>Nope, both NICs are Realtek. It&amp;#x27;ll make a great flaming pile of shit.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had realtek network hardware that wasn&amp;#x27;t unstable under load on linux.</text></item><item><author>mrpippy</author><text>With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense&amp;#x2F;OpenBSD router.&lt;p&gt;Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but that’s the price of Intel. Great to see a well-known boardmaker coming out with an up-to-date x86 option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arghwhat</author><text>Never had problems with Realtek on Linux in recent years. Had a lot of problems with it under *BSD a decade ago, though.&lt;p&gt;I still prefer Intel NICs, but IIRC, Realtek works just fine now. The new network antichrist is &amp;quot;Killer&amp;quot; WiFi NICs</text></comment>