From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 21:34:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B412716A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [216.138.197.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9208D43FE3 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM) Received: (qmail 50351 invoked by uid 0); 12 Sep 2003 04:34:21 -0000 Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (HELO mail.freebsdsystems.com) (lnb@freebsdsystems.com@216.138.197.66) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2003 04:34:21 -0000 Received: from h35.c218.tor.velocet.net ([216.138.218.35]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user lnb@freebsdsystems.com) by mail.freebsdsystems.com with HTTP; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49202.216.138.218.35.1063341261.squirrel@mail.freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:34:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lanny Baron" To: "Richard Sharpe" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Yaoping Ruan Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 04:34:26 -0000 Hi, Personally, Linksys and netgear are pure grade 1 childrens toys. Or pure adulterated CRAP. If you want performance use Intel Pro/1000 Server NICs If you are going to use Fibre, check the hardware list. We use QLogic. Mind you we build the Cadillac of PC Servers :) Regards, Lanny Richard you have SCSI the other person seems to have ATA. Richard Sharpe in the last message apparantly wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 >> XEON >> 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM >> harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does >> anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any >> compatibility >> problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel >> compatibility issues on other Intel Board. > > Is that the dual-processor-capable borad? If so, I have one of those at > home, and it works with FreeBSD 4.7 or so. It certainly has the 7501 > chipset in it and 2x1.8GHz Xeons. > >> An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network >> Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI >> like >> Netgear GA621 on it? > > They worked for me. I dunno about the fibre stuff. > > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, > sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=