We're about to migrate to a new server after four years of (almost) uninterrupted service on our old box. I feel quite sad about this somehow.
Our old box is still running as a backup and with miscellaneous services, as is its predecessor and its predecessor and its predecessor, that is the 1991, the 1996, the 2000 and the 2002 boxes. The need for a new machine is generally the need for much greater filestore space plus the need to changeover with as brief a service interruption as possible, which on the last two occasions has been done by getting the new machine working in parallel for a time with "cpdup" used to transfer the files so the final stage is only an incremental update. The last time we did it, two months ago, the main problem was getting Samba printing from XP machines working again from the new server: that took a week. It was something I had not tested as I have not yet found any use for an XP machine. Luckily the old server was running in parallel, so it could be compared file by file.
Can anyone recommend gigabit ethernet cards that they've found will work out of the box with SuSE 9.1? If not, what have you got working and what did you have to do?
I would suspect there are not many issues. Our FreeBSD has worked fine with the "nge" driver on Dynamode/Netgear cards, and with the "em" driver on Intel cards. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk