CentOS 5 uses kernel 2.6.18-xx ... If this PF_RING thing requires a different kernel, I think a more accurate statement would be, . PF_RING is not supported on CentOS.
Indeed. I wonder whether there exists some difference between CentOS kernel and genral kernel from www.kernel.org? If so, maybe I should download the CentOS kernel source code and patch it to run PF_RING.
Any help?
PowerEdge is Dell's brand name for ALL their Server products. That Ubuntu bug was specific to the i450NX chipset, which was new in 1999 and obsoleted circa 2001, and supported dual Xeon Pentium II/III processors, around 300-800Mhz.. How old is your server??!?
My machine used to be installed PF_RING is exactly DELL PowerEdge 1950, with 8-core CPUs and 4G RAM, 80G disk. I don't think it is out of date.