They work, had a NAS running SMB and NFS serving to a couple ESX for backups using a dual port Connect-X.
The ones that have their issues are mostly the VPI/IB models which need to be reflashed to the ethernet firmware, on servethehome's forums there's plenty info about this.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, 4:56 AM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi All,
can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or not , it doesn't matter) without any issues? I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox "ConnectX" or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8.
Any proposals are also welcome. I don't care of the brand as long as it is PCIe and is supported by the vanilla kernel.
Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov
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