On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote:
> I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and > another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of > F9/C6/F16 (F16 was the only one that recognised the onboard NIC of the > asrock motherboard). > > Yesterday we received 10 servers based on an Intel motherboard (and 12 > more will be coming next week). F9 doesn't recognise the onboard NIC. > C6 recognises the onboard NIC but isn't able to send/receive packets. > F16 works fine (using e1000e driver). As these boards only have 1 PCI > socket it is not possible to have 2 NICs (unless we resort to USB...) > unless we move beyond C6. > It's worth noting that if you have to, there are NIC cards available with more than one port per PCI slot. They just tend to be rarer and as "server-grade" hardware, more expensive. Coming from a networking/ODM background, I have worked with plenty of 2-8 port e1000 NIC cards, and even 8-port tulip adapters. Just make sure that the PCI-E/X/etc. slot you are using has enough lanes to fit the NIC card in the slot, and for the load a schoolserver generates you should be fine. Historically I have seen e1000's and Broadcom Gigabit adapters in server-grade hardware. But given I have been out of the industry for a few years, I don't know what companies are using nowadays.
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