22 Sep
1998
22 Sep
'98
5:32 a.m.
+--- In a previous state of mind, kls@netapp.com (Karl Swartz) wrote: | | It won't ever change, because the drivers can't do what the hardware | doesn't support. We've looked at support for the AceNIC 2, which I | believe can handle multiple MAC addresses in addition to having much | higher performance, but the engineer working on that has been focused | on higher-priority projects.
I for one would rather have a single gigabit nic per filer as opposed to 2 per filer. In large clusters this gets real expensive quick. At $3k per NIC, seems like a better supported card is in order... Plus, what about filers with only single 64bit slots?
Alexei