[CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS
Ross Walker
rswwalker at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 23:50:51 UTC 2010
On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 02, 2010 03:28 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>>
>>> Intel. Broadcom. That's what we use here w/o any issues; however, there
>>> are some Intel NICs that are *not* able to handle Jumbo Frames due to an
>>> internal design glitch.
>>
>> Seconded. I have a load of Intel 82576 and 82571EB's, and there have been
>> no issues at all, including with Jumbo frames.
>>
>
> Please take note that some Intel 1G nics do not have jumbo frame support
> at all. So you won't have issues with jumbo frames either way. The
> question is whether there is jumbo frame support.
From my memory those that don't do jumbo were "desktop" versions of the chipset.
I believe all current manufactured models support jumbo frames.
-Ross
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