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Re: [SLE] tg3 Drivers for Broadcom Network Cards on Dell 2650 and 6650 Servers.
- From: Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:44:28 +1000
- Message-id: <200506031044.28594.Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:49 pm, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
> On 6/2/05, Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have the luxury of a development server,
> > so I can run up the new server, load the app, test it,
> > then swing it into production with very little downtime.
> > As soon as the new server is accepted as stable,
> > the old one gets re-cycled as the development machine.
> >
>
> I'm pushing for something like this, although personally I'm after a
> very high spec server that I can then stick vmware on and do
> destructive testing. At least I can dream.
Hmmm interesting, the only time I've thought of using vmware
in that context is playing with virus infection on a windows guest.
Or do you just want to see how far rm -rf / can go?
Andrew Tridgel told an amusing story at the Linux conf
of a bad interaction of unicode and command line feeding
a bare "/" into a string to be recursively deleted.
Ran fine till it started to clean out /proc
Astute readers will note that "p" comes after "h", Ouch.
I like having multiple identical hardware.
Enough machines to do the job
and at least 1 with no user-visible services.
Apart from being good for testing,
it means that I can pull a working system
out of anything but a total computer room meltdown.
Yes we have maintenance but sometimes it takes longer
than you can afford to be down. I had a disk array fail,
fortunately for me it happened just after I'd taken delivery
of a couple of new servers. I swiped enough disks to put
together a duplicate array, rsync nursed the home dirs across,
and the installation was running normally when I rang Dell
to sort out the problem hardware Monday morning. (big weekend)
As it turned out we lost the lot on the old array. Dell replaced
everything, controller, cables, disks. I don't know (or care)
how much was necessary, how much was apology.
It enabled me to walk away from the problem.
> > Hit them with a report they can't ignore,
> > new cards IS the easy cheap option.
>
> Your right. Any recommendations for current hardware?
For network cards: Intel, always intel.
(Pure prejudice but it's served me well)
Dual e1000 MT? Must be a server card.
The e1000 workstation card is limited to 250 Meg by the narrow PCI bus.
To Work,
michaelj
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox,
but after that....
> On 6/2/05, Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have the luxury of a development server,
> > so I can run up the new server, load the app, test it,
> > then swing it into production with very little downtime.
> > As soon as the new server is accepted as stable,
> > the old one gets re-cycled as the development machine.
> >
>
> I'm pushing for something like this, although personally I'm after a
> very high spec server that I can then stick vmware on and do
> destructive testing. At least I can dream.
Hmmm interesting, the only time I've thought of using vmware
in that context is playing with virus infection on a windows guest.
Or do you just want to see how far rm -rf / can go?
Andrew Tridgel told an amusing story at the Linux conf
of a bad interaction of unicode and command line feeding
a bare "/" into a string to be recursively deleted.
Ran fine till it started to clean out /proc
Astute readers will note that "p" comes after "h", Ouch.
I like having multiple identical hardware.
Enough machines to do the job
and at least 1 with no user-visible services.
Apart from being good for testing,
it means that I can pull a working system
out of anything but a total computer room meltdown.
Yes we have maintenance but sometimes it takes longer
than you can afford to be down. I had a disk array fail,
fortunately for me it happened just after I'd taken delivery
of a couple of new servers. I swiped enough disks to put
together a duplicate array, rsync nursed the home dirs across,
and the installation was running normally when I rang Dell
to sort out the problem hardware Monday morning. (big weekend)
As it turned out we lost the lot on the old array. Dell replaced
everything, controller, cables, disks. I don't know (or care)
how much was necessary, how much was apology.
It enabled me to walk away from the problem.
> > Hit them with a report they can't ignore,
> > new cards IS the easy cheap option.
>
> Your right. Any recommendations for current hardware?
For network cards: Intel, always intel.
(Pure prejudice but it's served me well)
Dual e1000 MT? Must be a server card.
The e1000 workstation card is limited to 250 Meg by the narrow PCI bus.
To Work,
michaelj
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox,
but after that....
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