@hj @sun This is like complaining back in the day that Linux didn't support winmodems very well

It was shit hardware that required you do almost all the work in software. Don't blame the OS devs for not giving two shits about a terrible common piece of hardware

Good NICs:

- Intel, most of them anyway
- Mellanox/Nvidia
- Solarflare
- Chelsio

Bad NICs:

- Realtek
- Broadcom


The good NICs even have developers from the respective companies writing the drivers for them on FreeBSD. I don't believe Broadcom or Realtek has any devs contributing anything at all.