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Danoh
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Quad port NICs that work
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Tuesday 24 May 2011, 01:01:06 am »
EFW 2.4
Can anyone recommend a PCI Express Quad port half-height NIC card that works with EFW?
I know for a fact that Intel cards work, but they are almost double the price of other 4-port NICs I've seen.
I have tried a StarTech.com ST1000SPEX4 with a chipset of Realtek RTL8111C, but it is not recognized by the kernel.
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Danoh
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Re: Quad port NICs that work
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Friday 18 May 2012, 06:13:28 am »
Thanks for the great support on this site....
Almost a year since I posted this with no responses.
FWIW - 2.5 same issue.
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mrkroket
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Re: Quad port NICs that work
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Saturday 19 May 2012, 04:20:07 am »
Linux is usually a do-it-by-yourself, esp. the community edition. You probably need to recompile the driver, or by luck having someone else with your very same problem that has the compiled drivers.
I use Intel Quad Port server cards, without a hitch. My uptimes are more than 60 days, and what usually break the uptime is power outage.
I can't recommend quad ports NIC. I have had one and hangs up a lot, totally unreliable, don't remember the name.
If I should some card for a firewall, I'd go for Intel or Broadcom, nothing else.
Unless you have a really limited budget, I prefer less money in my pocket and more peace of mind.
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Tuesday 29 May 2012, 04:36:12 pm »
thanks,very much.
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Re: Quad port NICs that work
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Tuesday 29 May 2012, 11:30:18 pm »
The 8111C card was troublesome with several linux's including 2.4, recognised as the other realtec card and hence no comms
but I can confirm they now work on 2.4.1 and upwards as well as many kernels
now above 2.6.3x
maybe worth a try, with 2.4.1
be aware a reload is needed and re-apply rules going from 2.4 to 2.41 because of the uuid problem.
unless you can fix it yourself after upgrade.
but 2.4. rules work no problem on 2.4.1 (more than i can say for 2.5.1 in my experience).
the intel cards are a much higher quality card then the realtec hence why they are so expensive.
and they are worth the extra money.
regards peter
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Danoh
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Thursday 07 June 2012, 01:04:15 am »
Same issue with an Intel Quad Port - on EFW 2.5.1 -- Intel 82580 Rev01 (Intel Server Adapter I340-T4)
Shows in lspci, but doesn't show in ifconfig -a
Any suggestions?
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mrkroket
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Thursday 07 June 2012, 02:10:57 am »
Probably the igb drivers are not installed by default, but once you compile the drivers, they worked great.
Mine appears as:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
So the issue here is to compile the drivers for 2.5.1. I still use the 2.4.0, so I don't know if my drivers will work on 2.5.1.
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Thursday 07 June 2012, 03:15:42 am »
I did a 'modprobe -a igb' and it loaded a module as seen in 'lsmod' but still no eth devices show in 'ifconfig -a'
My 'lsmod' appears as:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
I downloaded the igb-3.4.7.tar.gz from intel, but how am I supposed to compile this when EFW doesn't come with a compiler and I can't yum easily because of no network connections.
This is frustrating.
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