Am 08.05.2011 19:52, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
John R Pierce wrote:
Except that I'd like to add a second ethernet port, and am not sure where one can find a card that will fit this machine. As far as I can see, it requires a half-height PCIe card, which seems to be rather a rare animal. (There doesn't seem to be a standard for the backplate.)
"low profile" is the buzzword, and there's lots of them. for example... http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt/pro1000pt-
overview.htm
Thanks for your response. But I don't think "low profile" is enough - the MicroServer needs half-height low profile, and I don't think from the pictures the ones you pointed to are half-height. (The backplate looks too high.)
The add-on card article by HP is
NC112T PCI-Express Gigabit-Serveradapter (503746-B21)
connector: 1x RJ-45 chipset: Intel i82574L specials: Wake on LAN, low profile
or a dual port equivalent http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt-
dualport/pro1000pt-dualport-overview.htm
For some reason the dual port NICs seem incredibly expensive - more expensive than the computer, in fact.
Dual port NICs working are i.e.
Intel Gigabit ET Server Adapter, 2x 1000Base-T, PCIe x4, low profile (E1G42ET)
available for 120 Euro.
Alexander