[nylug-talk] tg3 or bcm5700?

[Sunny Dubey]

On Saturday 15 September 2007 02:33:28 pm Brian McGonigle wrote:
> We use HP Proliants at work and they have the Broadcom BCM5750 NIC's.  
> We've been using the tg3 module with them for quite a while without  
> any problems. A colleague is insisting that we use the BCM5700 module  
> because they used to use it when he was in my department. All of my  
> research has shown that the tg3 module is best for this chipset. I  
> believe when he used the bcm5700 module it was with RH8 and the 2.4  
> kernel. Anyone else have any experience with this NIC and either of  
> these modules?

IIRC the only reason to use the binary only bcm5700 was its bonding support.  
I used to use tg3 for months on end with no problems on a DL320.

Its the crappy HPASM/HPISM you should really be worried about, heh

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