Cheaper copper gigabit cards

From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 15:44:49 EDT


We have a dozen IBM P655 servers, each with a 1 gigabit copper ethernet
card. We want to have failover and redundant paths to the world, but the
price for that card was over $1,200.00 each.

Has anyone ever succeeded installing a 3rd party gigabit card in a similar
system? Where did you get the drivers? Did IBM Hardware support have any
problem with that?

I have heard of 3rd party memory being used, but what about PCI ethernet
cards?

Thanks

Christopher M. Baker
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

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