Recommendations on NICs used for Channel Bonding (concerns with Intel etherexpress)

[Horatio B. Bogbindero]

what is a 3Com EEpro card? i though the EEPro was intel's??? if it is a
3com card with an intel chipset what is the model number?

> 
> I've used the 3COM EEPro in an Intel based cluster in a channel bonding
> environment  on Red Hat 6.2 quite sucessfully.   For switching gear, we
> opted for an Extreme Summit 48 switch.  The end result was an immensely
> satisfied end user...:-)
> 
> http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/datasheets/summit24.asp
> 
> 
> 
>      ~David
> 
> David A. Grant,  V.P. Cluster Technologies
> GSH Intelligent Integrated Systems
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Woo" <twoo at uwo.ca>
> To: <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 3:34 PM
> Subject: Recommendations on NICs used for Channel Bonding (concerns with
> Intel etherexpress)
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm looking to do channel bonding (2x) with 100BT switched ethernet
> > involving about 64 machines.  The 3 test machines I currently have all
> have
> > Intel Ether express Pros (INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO 10/100+ PCI PILA8460B)
> > They all work great with channel bonding on redhat 6.2 and 7.0.  However,
> > i've been told that for channel bonding these NICs may not be the best.
> > Thus, I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on what are the
> best
> > NICs for channel bonding, or what NICs to avoid when channel bonding.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > ============================================
> > Dr. Tom Woo
> > Department of Chemistry
> > University of Western Ontario
> > London, Ontario
> > Canada, N6A 5B7
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