What's your favorite network card?

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JeffMings
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What's your favorite network card?

Post by JeffMings » 2018/03/19 21:08:07

Hello All!

What is your favorite, or most trusted, network card?

I generally don't have to buy additional NICs, since so many servers have 2 or 4 built-in. I recently purchased a few Intel 82574L cards because a lot of people recommend them. However, I've had 2 intermittent and unexpected hangs of that card on a Dell T20. I will try using the latest driver from Intel, instead of Centos 7's "stock" e1000e driver, but I am amazed at how many problems are reported for Intel's supposedly "high-performance" NICs. The issues are reported for various versions of Windoze as well as Linux.

Please share with everyone: which PCIe gigabit network card do you prefer and trust to just work without problems or issues?

Thanks!

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Re: What's your favorite network card?

Post by TrevorH » 2018/03/21 20:44:16

Any Intel card except the 82574 or 82576. Those are the only useless ones that they made AFAIK.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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JeffMings
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Re: What's your favorite network card?

Post by JeffMings » 2018/03/27 20:31:23

Thanks Trevor :)
That quick reply is very helpful.

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