On 6/13/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/13/05, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/13/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - dc, em and sk seems to be the way to go, but what to for quad port > > > cards? where to find one, brand names, model numbers, revisions > > > > I have a number of machines deployed using the Intel PRO/1000 MT > > quad GigE PCI-X cards, mostly in Dell PowerEdge systems. They > > work great, though I'm not really pushing the limits. > > > > Which Dell server do you have?
Currently we have the 750, 1750, and 2650 in production. The choice of model was determined almost entirely by what kind of budget the project had, and whether we needed RAID-5 with a hot spare (thus the larger chassis). Buying the PE750 with onboard SATA was a mistake we won't make again, Some of these severs came with onboard 'em' interfaces, some with 'bge'. And a few of the 2650s included an Adaptec RAID, the 1750s are all 'ami'. Based on positive reviews here, we will probably purchase a pair of PE1850s soon. I wanted to go with SeraSystems instead, but purchasing makes it really difficult to order from any vendor that isn't Dell or Sun. (I thought about the Sunfire V20z, then I saw the price...) > Are you doing port trunking with that > Quad GigE cards (i mean: a single I/O channel of 4 GigE?) I have to fight to be allocated one-off GigE ports on the main Cisco switches, the network group would freak if I told them I wanted to start doing trunking :) My most heavily loaded interface seldom breaks 400Mbps outside of testing, I could get by with a less capable quad gig card, but 'em' seems to be the best supported quad GigE card on i386, and it's easier to go with the flow and buy Intel than explain to purchasing what "SysKonnect" is. Kevin Kadow
