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 at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >