CentOS - Feb 2021 - Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

Hi All,


can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or
not , it doesn't matter) without any issues?
I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox  "ConnectX"
or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8.

Any proposals are also welcome. I don't care of the brand as long as it
is PCIe and is supported by the vanilla kernel.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov

On 2/7/21 3:55 AM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or
> not , it doesn't matter) without any issues?
> I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox 
"ConnectX"
> or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8.
> 
> Any proposals are also welcome. I don't care of the brand as long as it
> is PCIe and is supported by the vanilla kernel.
I'm using a number of HP branded MT27520 Family [ConnectX-3 Pro] 
InfiniBand FDR/Ethernet 10Gb/40Gb 2-port 544+FLR-QSFP Adapters without 
any issue. Not sure if that is old enough for you.

HTH,
   Orion

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They work, had a NAS running SMB and NFS serving to a couple ESX for
backups using a dual port Connect-X.

The ones that have their issues are mostly the VPI/IB models which need to
be reflashed to the ethernet firmware, on servethehome's forums there's
plenty info about this.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, 4:56 AM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS <centos at
centos.org>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or
> not , it doesn't matter) without any issues?
> I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox 
"ConnectX"
> or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8.
>
> Any proposals are also welcome. I don't care of the brand as long as it
> is PCIe and is supported by the vanilla kernel.
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
>
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