On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:34:20 -0400 > schrieb Mark Saad <nones...@longcount.org>: > >> >> >> >> On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> >> wrote: >> >>> Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) >>> schrieb Brett Glass <br...@lariat.net>: >>> >>>> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how >>>> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and >>>> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait >>>> until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. >>> >>> >>> If I'm not mistaken, the bge-stuff that makes the default NICs ins >>> HP G8 servers (360+380) actually run will not make it back into 9.1. >>> Intel cards work much better anyway... >>> >> Did you swap out the bge nic daughter card in the g8 servers for an >> intel one or , do you mean in general the intel nic support is >> better ? > > Both, actually. > At least, Intel has drivers for FreeBSD on their website and IIRC, it's > a Tier 1 OS for them. > I don't want to dis the efforts of the people working on the bXe stuff, > but from what I have read, they have much less support from the vendor. > We have used HP servers even back when they were still Compaq-servers > (and came with Intel NICs...) and this is really the first time we had > to install Intel NICs with them (with FreeBSD - there was an earlier > issue with Solaris, but that does not count...). > > Are there Intel daughter cards for this server? > I thought, all the daugher-cards came with some sort of Broadcom > chipset. Hp did a presentation at work 2 weeks ago about the g8 . Hp said you can swap out a daughter card in the 360/380/580 for nic options like broadcom 4 port gigabit nic , melenox infinbabd, intel pro1000 4 port nic , qlogic 8Gb fc-al and others . They said its an FRU but I have not seen the parts yet . --- Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
