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Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ?
The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok.
This is the only quad-port NIC I have found with a reasonable price, so I'm seriously considering using it.
Comments ?
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
On 8/3/07, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ?
The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok.
This is the only quad-port NIC I have found with a reasonable price, so I'm seriously considering using it.
Comments ?
Neither RHEL4, RHEL5 nor CENTOS4, CENTOS5 ship the needed sundance kernel driver. I've requested the inclusion of this driver in RedHat bugzilla ages ago, but so far only got the answer that they maybe consider it for a future update release.
Anyway, you can compile the driver yourself. Be sure to install kernel-devel as this is needed to get it compiled. After installing the driver in the proper place under /lib/modules/<kernelverison>/kernel/drivers/net/ run depmod -a. Then you should be able to load the sundance.ko module.
I'm using the sundance driver on several CENTOS4/5 servers without any issues since several month.
Best regards, Bernd
As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel.
I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable the driver in their kernel. However, disabling kudzu solved the issue.
I use that Adapter in a Firewall-Box at one of my customer's sites and we only had one issue in the last two years: one day one of the ports suddenly stopped working. However, a reboot solved the issue.
Regards, Andreas
Am Freitag, den 03.08.2007, 22:47 +0200 schrieb Bernd Bartmann:
On 8/3/07, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ?
The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok.
This is the only quad-port NIC I have found with a reasonable price, so I'm seriously considering using it.
Comments ?
Neither RHEL4, RHEL5 nor CENTOS4, CENTOS5 ship the needed sundance kernel driver. I've requested the inclusion of this driver in RedHat bugzilla ages ago, but so far only got the answer that they maybe consider it for a future update release.
Anyway, you can compile the driver yourself. Be sure to install kernel-devel as this is needed to get it compiled. After installing the driver in the proper place under /lib/modules/<kernelverison>/kernel/drivers/net/ run depmod -a. Then you should be able to load the sundance.ko module.
I'm using the sundance driver on several CENTOS4/5 servers without any issues since several month.
Best regards, Bernd _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 8/4/07, Andreas Rogge wrote:
As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel.
I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable the driver in their kernel. However, disabling kudzu solved the issue.
I use that Adapter in a Firewall-Box at one of my customer's sites and we only had one issue in the last two years: one day one of the ports suddenly stopped working. However, a reboot solved the issue.
Andreas, you're right we also had the kudzu problem. First I got eth0-eth3, after reboot eth4-eth7, after reboot again eth0-eth3, ... For me disabling kudzu also solved the issue. I just forgot about this fact.
Best regards, Bernd
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 10:32 +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
On 8/4/07, Andreas Rogge wrote:
As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel.
I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable the driver in their kernel. However, disabling kudzu solved the issue.
this sounds similar to the problems I had with a Sun quad card: depending on the bios, the system may have problems accessing the option rom on the card. I solved that setting the mac address in the options in /etc/modprobe.conf..... (this card uses the sunhme driver).
I use that Adapter in a Firewall-Box at one of my customer's sites and we only had one issue in the last two years: one day one of the ports suddenly stopped working. However, a reboot solved the issue.
Andreas, you're right we also had the kudzu problem. First I got eth0-eth3, after reboot eth4-eth7, after reboot again eth0-eth3, ... For me disabling kudzu also solved the issue. I just forgot about this fact.
see above.... Setting the start mac address solved the issue. The sundance driver unfortunately does not support that option I believe..... kind regards, Louis