Re: Gigabit-card for Linux/x86

Hi,

pay attention on your PCI bus bandwidth...PCI bandwidth is shared between all devices on the system bus...and specially for a RAC interconnect, inappropriate PCI bus can be easily saturated by a Gigabit Eth. connection.

HTH,
Goran

On 11/21/06, Ron Rogers <RROGERS_at_galottery.org> wrote:
>
> Amir,
> I have in-expensive AirLink 10/100/1000 PCI Network Adapter card
> running in RHEL4.0 now and they work good. Model #AGIGA32PCI
> REALTEK RTL8169/8110 Familt Gigabit Ethernet NIC
> www.Airlinkplus.com
>
> Also an AirLink 10/100/1000 hub.
> Ron
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 13:39 PM
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> Subject: Gigabit-card for Linux/x86
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> Folks,
> I am setting up a 10GR2 RAC on two x86 servers running RHL 4. I am
> thinking of purchasing two gigabit cards to setup a private gigabit
> network. One think that I want to make sure is that the Linux drivers
> are available for that card so that I do not waste my time to configure
> it. Has anyone recently purchased any Gigabit card - at reasonable price
> - and configured with RHL that they would like to recommend? Any
> feedback will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Amir
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