Re: Hardware requirements for an LVS director

["Peter J Milanese" <PMilanese@xxxxxxxx>]

I have not had the desire to go with a 2.6 distro.  Or the need for that 
matter. If you happen to get broadcom, just make sure it does not use the tg3 
driver. You want the bcm5700 driver.

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Subject: Re: Hardware requirements for an LVS director

On 10/13/05, Peter J Milanese <PMilanese@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes. Be careful with NICs. Broadcom in particular had lots of load issues 
> with older drivers. It would drop the entire interface on gig-full dupe under 
> significant load. Windows drivers were ok. Linux was not.
>

What about standard linux 2.6.x kernel bundled drivers?