[CentOS] HP MicroServer

Sun May 8 14:28:44 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 05/08/11 6:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> A bit OT, but I'm running CentOS-5.6 on this machine
> (in fact on two of them)
> and it seems to run perfectly -
> I've had no problems at all.
>
> 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

or a dual port equivalent
http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt-dualport/pro1000pt-dualport-overview.htm