HP BL460c

[George Kontostanos]

Thanks John,
I'm downloading now the latest stable snapshot and I will try it on Tuesday
probably. I have requested a demo blade from HP.
Thanks again.

On 3/30/07, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 March 2007 01:41:47 pm George Kontostanos wrote:
> > On 3/30/07, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Friday 30 March 2007 09:46:53 am George Kontostanos wrote:
> > > > Greetings everyone,
> > > >
> > > >  We are about to proceed to a major upgrade for our servers. I was
> > > looking
> > > > at the new HP ProLiant BL460c witch according to the technical specs
> at:
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>
> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant-bl/c-class/460c/specifications.htmlcomes
> > > > with the embedded NC370i network controller. However, after a lot of
> > > > goggling I found out that there are compatibility problems with that
> > > > controller. Any suggestions are kindly welcomed.
> > >
> > > If it's the bce(4) part with SerDes RELENG_6 will support it, though
> 6.2
> > > doesn't.  6.3 will include fully support however.
> > >
> > > --
> > > John Baldwin
> >
> >
> > It is the :
> >
> > Embedded NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter Network Processor
> > Broadcom 5706
> >
> > I saw that HP ships that adapter only in the AMD platform which I'm
> > considering of purchasing.
> > Any ideas about that ?
>
> That should work with bce(4) in 6.x-stable.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>