reliable gigabit NICs for fedora?

[Todd Denniston]

Tom Horsley wrote, On 08/03/2009 09:41 PM:
> I see just enough complaints about various gigabit network
> adapters in various versions of linux that I'm slightly
> leery of just buying whatever I can find and slapping it
> in the system :-).
> 
> Anyone using gigabit (and actually using the bandwidth
> too :-) who can recommend some adapters that work well
> in fedora 11?
> 
> I've got PCI as well as PCIE 1x slots available (PCI
> only in some systems though).
> 

suggestion try asking on the drbd list. (or just Google the list a bit)
http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user

IIRC with at least some of the _earlier_ broadcoms there were issues on that list with the 
offloading functions.

Quick summary of drbd: RAID 1 across a network, i.e., have the network _try_ to keep up with the 
rate you are pushing data to a hard drive. :)

They should know what the current state with respect to the question asked.

http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/re-drbdconf.html#data-integrity
http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/users-guide/s-integrity-check.html
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=card+corruption+site%3Alists.linbit.com%2Fpipermail%2Fdrbd-user%2F&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=-Pw1cEIpNGU
http://www.drbd.org/ <- nice drawing of what drbd does.

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter