On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, but this has turned out to be a real pain.
What chip set, or what pci-e nic card would you recommend?
I've had good luck with Intel ethernet chips/cards, especially the server oriented ones.
one of my recent servers has these NICs...
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) 03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
another has...
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
these are both recent Xeon 5600 class CPUs. The first is a HP DL380g6, the 2nd is a whitebox server with a SuperMicro X8DTE-F motherboard.