[off-topic] Help requested:Query on dual/quad port NIC

[Nigel Jones]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Tristan Santore
<tristan.santore at internexusconnect.net> wrote:
> On 28/10/09 13:37, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can someone please help me with this?
>> This person is looking for an PCI-based quad-port NIC which will work
>> on Fedora/CentOS.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Indranil Das Gupta<indradg at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:01 PM
>> Subject: Query on dual/quad port NIC
>>
>> Susmit,
>>
>> I'm looking for a PCI-based dual (preferably) quad-port NIC. The card
>> needs to work (preferably with all 4 ports functioning) on Fedora/CentOS
>> (Linux
>> kernel 2.6.26 and upward (i386 arch))
>>
>> thanks
>> -idg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Susmit,
> Intel does a lot of them, and they almost certainly will work with
> Fedora/RHEL.
>

Any Broadcom/Intel (bnx/e1000) cards that have gone through the Red
Hat Hardware Certifications should be a safe bet.  (check the product
specs for a card similar to what you want, then go to
hardware.redhat.com to see if that server is certified. If so, there
is a good chance of support.

Alternative, check bugzilla/git.kernel.org for commits related to the
NIC model#.

- Nigel