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

[David Grant]

Hi Tom,

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
>
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