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Just about any motherboard will work. Where you typically would run
into problems would be drivers for expansion cards/peripherals.<br>
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We have 4 NICs in many of our CentOS 5 servers:<br>
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)<br>
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)<br>
Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)<br>
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The Broadcom chips use the bnx2 driver, while the Intel uses the
e1000 driver - both included with CentOS. I've ran them at 100 and
1000, with 802.1q, no jumbo frames. Never had a problem with them.<br>
<br>
--Blake<br>
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Subject: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e
slots<br>
From: robert mena <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:robert.mena@gmail.com"><robert.mena@gmail.com></a><br>
To: CentOS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:centos@centos.org"><centos@centos.org></a><br>
Date: Sunday, April 03, 2011 9:25:24 PM<br>
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cite="mid:BANLkTinTpdsMZ3B0bwMigZEuRfBmxgnERA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi,
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<div>I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for
motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and
works with CentOS.</div>
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<div>I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug
and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way
I am asking this here.</div>
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