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by dpwm 2603 days ago
No. If it was my own machine I'd certainly try it out – but it's work's machine running Debian stretch, so we switched to a difference NIC with a Realtek interface which has given no problems and meets our performance requirements.

To be clear, this appears to be a problem with the newness of the chipset and the time it takes to get drivers into upstream – the chipset we switched to had its fair share of teething problems when it first came out.

Intel had a long-standing reputation for rock-solid network cards with great open-source drivers ready the day of release – a reputation Realtek has never really had.

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This is the first time I've heard of switching TO a Realtek chipset to solve a networking problem.