cpu memhd wrote: > Hey Erich, > > I haven't tried it. But I thought I should comment on the architecture. It > uses the Xeon Blackford chipset, which uses FB-DIMMS, which run very hot. > I have 4 DIMMS, 4GB RAM in one of my personal servers, a 5000V Blackford > and the DIMMs seem to generate lots more heat than the CPU: a Xeon 1.86 > 5000 series. > > I have looked at the Nexcom solutions and I've been considering getting an > 8-port 1083 which uses the desktop Q965 chipset. > > Anyhow, the 2189 would be nicer I think, if it used a 5100 board because > it supports DDR2. Or better yet, the 3200 series (for the most part, 1333 > MHz bus versions of the previous 3000 series Xeon boards... which are just > glorified Conroe boards). The 3xxx Xeon boards are cheap and the 1333 > MHz/3000 Xeons are dirt cheap even at >= 3 GHz speeds
Well, I need it for _many_ ports, but looking at the little specs I got I am a bit worried that LEAF will not support the LAN chips. It all depends whether the multi port boards are of the Intel® 82571EB or 82546GB chip set. It appears that the 82571EB is only supported in the 2.6 kernel. Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
