Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-06 Thread Matthew Crews
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On 5 September 2018 6:50 PM, Jim wrote: > Who can tell me if there are any nics that don't work well with linux?  > I'm looking for a nic and with my luck if I don't ask, I'll end up > buying one that does not get along with linux at all. I have yet to encounter

Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
Intel is always legit under linux. I use their nics to test at 40gb and 200gb, depending on the scenario. 1-10gb is pretty much without thinking fine with standard commodity hardware. Intel or most any vendor at 1gb is fine, even typically usb chinese crap nics are fine. Only at 10gb + do you t

Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Stephen Partington
I haven't seen one in a long time. On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 7:45 PM Ed wrote: > good to know: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 6:53 PM Kevin Fries wrote: > > > > Most NIC's come on the board nowadays, and have not seen one fail in > years. But Intel based anythi

Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Ed
good to know: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 6:53 PM Kevin Fries wrote: > > Most NIC's come on the board nowadays, and have not seen one fail in years. > But Intel based anything is generally a safe bet. > > Kevin > > Sent from BlueMail > On Sep 5, 2018, at 7:50

Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Kevin Fries
Most NIC's come on the board nowadays, and have not seen one fail in years.  But Intel based anything is generally a safe bet. Kevin ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Sep 5, 2018, 7:50 PM, at 7:50 PM, Jim wrote: >Who can tell me if there are any nics that don't work well with linux?  > >I'm looking for

Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Jim
Who can tell me if there are any nics that don't work well with linux?  I'm looking for a nic and with my luck if I don't ask, I'll end up buying one that does not get along with linux at all. thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@l