Hi, Graham!

New Intel NICs are pretty stable in our SL5 servers, giving now problems. We
have also, Netxen, Chelsio. Intel works w/o much tuning straigh out of the
box. And has some potential - with newer (newer then SL5, or custom
compiled) kernels you should be able to use it's DMA and multiple receieve
interrupt vectors. Make sure you've got  the latest driver from Intel.

cheers
Artem.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone has any positive or negative experiences with the
> various 10Gbe NICs available, in an SL5 system?
>
> I've heard of instability when using the Intel NICs (this on a CentOS 5
> system, but I assume similar behaviour to SL), good reports on the
> Myricom NICs, and another positive report on Chelsio from our
> supercomputing guys (though I believe they are running Suse).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
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