Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 00:25:12 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experiences with Supermicro Twin servers? (6016TT / 6026TT / 6015TW) Message-ID: <49FA2548.8060304@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <49FA1246.5020704@modulus.org> References: <49F9A324.8090007@quip.cz> <49FA1246.5020704@modulus.org>
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Andrew Snow wrote: > Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> are there somebody with some experiences (bad or good) with Supermicro >> Twin servers? Mainly with 2U model 6026TT-TF or 1U model 6016TT-TF >> build on top of Intel 5520 Tylersburg (or any other?) > > > They lack PS2 ports so you need USB keyboard to work properly. When I > tried FreeBSD 7.1 on the previous generation (based on Intel 5400 > Seaburg), the keyboard would not work at all, even though it worked with > 7.0. I have a bunch of Sun Fire X2100 M2 which lack PS2 too, but USB keyboard is working fine. Did you test it with upcomming 7.2? > The IPMI daughterboard conflicts with the on-board LAN when FreeBSD is > running, causing packet loss and reduced performance and sometimes locks > you out. So you need to use IPMI with a dedicated external LAN port - > which then blocks the only available PCIe slot. Can you explain it more detailed? Do you have model where IPMI card have shared NIC port with standard on-board NIC? Intel 5520 Tylersburg based Twin servers have IPMI + KVM integrated onboard with dedicated third NIC port. May I expect problems or am I save with dedicated port? There are 4 NIC ports on Sun Fire X2100 M2, where 2 are nVidia and 2 are Broadcom (bge). One of those bge is shared with IPMI + KVM, but in this case, it works fine for more than year with hw.bge.allow_asf="1" in loader.conf. No locks, no packet loss. What is model number of your servers? Thank you for your reply Miroslav Lachman
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