CentOS - Apr 2011 - Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

Hi,

I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models
that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS.

I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug and did not work
well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way I am asking this here.
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:25:24 -0400
robert mena wrote:
> I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models
> that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS.
I have 3 ethernet cards in this machine (actually 2 cards plus the port
that's
built-in).

    description: Motherboard
       product: DP45SG
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1
       version: AAE27733-405




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centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for
> motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works
> with CentOS. 
You can get 4 etherports on one card... 
For 17 examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064%20
600013873&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20
How many of those work well with Linux (of whatever variety) I don't
know.  One board claiming RedHat compatibility with a loadable kernel
module is
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-I4.cfm 

Another article that might give fast, cheap, albeit old answers is
http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html

Why do you need 3 network interface cards?  Would two NICs with 2
etherports each, or 1 4-port card meet your need?
> I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug
> and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's
> way I am asking this here.
Are you building a desktop/personal machine, or a server?
Are you picky about power/heat/noise factors of the Mobo?

Sorry about your 5 options being narrowed down to 30, but the question
asked was really imprecise.


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Just about any motherboard will work. Where you typically would run into
problems would be drivers for expansion cards/peripherals.

We have 4 NICs in many of our CentOS 5 servers:
 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
 Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

The Broadcom chips use the bnx2 driver, while the Intel uses the e1000
driver - both included with CentOS. I've ran them at 100 and 1000, with
802.1q, no jumbo frames. Never had a problem with them.

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Subject: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots
From: robert mena <robert.mena at gmail.com>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Date: Sunday, April 03, 2011 9:25:24 PM
> Hi,
>
> I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard
> models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS.
>
> I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug and did
> not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way I am asking
> this here.
>
>
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