I'm thinking: if the whole purpose of yet-to-be-purchased switch is to enable higher wan speed of pfsense, wouldn't be replacing pfsense's NIC with a 10Gbps part actually cheaper? And would allow full speed for connections targeting same internet server. You are 100% correct. Unfortunately, I've hi...

Something in that line. There's just a gotcha with LAG in general (and MT can't be any different): all packets belonging to single connection will pass same bond member, hence single connection throughput is limited to speed of bond member (in your case 1Gbps). Same may apply to muktiple connection...

I have a bit of a problem and before I purchase anything, I was hoping somebody can let me know if this will work or not... I have a cable modem with a 2.5G port on it. From what I've seen, the 10G ethernet SFP's support this speed. I then have a pfsense box with a couple of gigabit nic's in it. Wha...