Re: [Testbed-admins] network drivers in freebsd.newnode MFS?

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

Or is this just for your boss and ops?

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:29:20PM -0600, Robert Ricci wrote:
> If this is *just* for the newnode MFS - the newnode MFS is just a 
> convenience - it'll help you enter some data about your nodes, where 
> they are connected to switches, etc. If you're just adding a few nodes 
> (as I suspect BBN is...) it's possible to enter this information 
> manually, and this might be less work than spending time fighting with 
> drivers.
> 
> If you are installing dozens or hundreds of machines, of course, then 
> the tradeoff is probably favors getting the MFS working.
> 
> On 5/17/10 3:20 PM, Chaos Golubitsky wrote:
> > Hmm, okay.  We're not really in a position where we can easily go
> > the FreeBSD 7.0 route, so i guess i have to see if i can get either
> > the Broadcom or Intel driver to behave under 6.3.
> >
> > Alternately, if we wanted to throw money at the problem: does anyone
> > have a model of a PCIe or PCI-X 1Gb ethernet card which is known
> > to work with the stock drivers?  Bonus points if it's a quad-port
> > card.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chaos Golubitsky
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