On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:12:45PM -0700, Dave Close wrote:
> This box has two on-board Broadcom NICs
> and we added an Intel quad-port NIC sold by Dell. 

...

> Strange interactions should
> be expected if the combination hasn't been explicitly tested.


Yeah, that's why people do things like pay extra to get a dell-branded
intel nic.   Personally, my experience, like the one above, has been that 
it doesn't seem to help much.   paid support is great for obvious (box 
won't boot, etc...) problems but is generally worthless for subtle stuff.  

It's irritating, 'cause I imagine dell could do a much better job of 
integration testing than I can.   


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