Definitive recommendation for bonding Broadcom NICS?
Peter Mueller
pmueller at sidestep.com
Mon Oct 18 11:57:01 CDT 2004
> We use the tg3 drivers on all of our RH ES 2.1 and 3.0 loads
> and we push
> about 1.2 GB/s over our bonded pair of Broadcom's on both
> 2650's and 6650's.
> In fact we have tried about every different combination with
> drivers and found that the tg3's work best.
That is great to hear. What version of the tg3 driver are you using? If
RHEL 2.1/3 could you list the kernel version? Are you passing any extra
parameters at boot? E.g., noapic, nosmp, etc.
Regards,
P
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