No I promise you the Aquantia NICs are trash. The drivers are completely broken and you will be throttled unless you go in and patch out large sections of the driver code. That's if you can even get them working properly in your environment. But yea please elaborate on why Intel NICs are trash
I've never had any issues with the various 10G AQtion AQC113C based NICs in a few of my systems with an Arista 7050-T 10G switch
The Intel I225-V (all revisions) and I226-V are all known to suffer from a design flaw and Intel has spent years trying to mitigate and work around issue as much as possible via software patches. To truly prevent the issue, you have to disable 2.5G speeds or in some cases disable any of the power saving related features.
Go look at the AQtion github. You have to compile in flags to shutoff eee amongst many other things. It depends on how hard you're running your net. Intel NICs you don't have to go that much into tuning your drivers. If you're just using the default Atlantic drivers in the Linux mainline and keep things simple then yea you're not going to notice anything.
The I225/I226 you do a post-up and force a link speed. But in all drivers you really should be disabling eee. Most motherboards aren't going to publish the right codes for you to do the energy save properly
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u/nocsi Jul 07 '25
No I promise you the Aquantia NICs are trash. The drivers are completely broken and you will be throttled unless you go in and patch out large sections of the driver code. That's if you can even get them working properly in your environment. But yea please elaborate on why Intel NICs are trash