[clug] Dual GigE NIC recommendations

[Brett Worth]

On 3 September 2012 12:12, Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Anyone recommend a reasonable dual GigE NIC (PCIe) for a reasonably
> recent Linux kernel (eg. 2.6.32 etc.) that is available locally?
>
> Any comments/recommendations?
>

My only recommendation is that you don't use anything that has a netxen
chipset.  H.P. used these for a while and after many patches to the
firmware and drivers they are still unstable.

We've had good results with Intel NICs.

-- 
Brett

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