Re: Cheaper copper gigabit cards

From: Willeat, Todd (TWilleat@MHP.SMHS.COM)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 16:35:40 EDT


I've used SysKonnect Gigabit fiber cards (dual port) with no problems.
SysKonnect supplies the drivers, and IBM hasn't had a problem with then
yet...

-----Original Message-----
From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM [mailto:cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:45 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Cheaper copper gigabit cards
Importance: High

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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