I’ve got Pfsense installed on a device with 6 RJ45 ports. 0 is wan, 1 is lan0, 2 is lan1, etc up to 4. Why I have multiple lans is somewhat tangential.

One day it rebooted due to a power outage and WAN worked but lan1 and 2 and 3+ were messed up. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but the second physical Ethernet port was non responsive at boot and Pfsense just assigned the ports as if it never existed. I moved all the cables over one except LAN and it worked just fine. Except that of course in the troubleshooting i had moved all the assignments around and broke it thoroughly, so it took a while.

It’s still pretty much 2x. I managed to get ram bought before it went silly but I’m really short on storage.

Without googling the specs, are those two on a different channel? ie the chipset has 6 and then another chip handles 2 or vice versa

I’m going on holidays tomorrow. Should I take a gamble?

Well, Chinese manufactures cloned the design and came in well under price, took the Chinese market, then improved the product and challenged iRobot globally.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.