[CentOS] PCI express ether cards

Fri Jun 27 00:22:09 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 at 8:10pm, Milt Mallory wrote

> Greetings. I'm looking for recommendations for a PCI Express ethernet
> card that works with Centos5. Kernel is:
>
> Linux mgw1.topix.net 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 01:21:20 EST
> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

1) Upgrade.  That kernel is vulnerable to the vmsplice exploit.

2) Intel.  Period.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF