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. 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? Thanks in anticipation,
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
On 29 Oct 2004 at 13:22, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
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.
Hmm.. when we replaced our servers 3 (4?) years ago, we hung on to the old boxes. They'd been in place for the best part of 5 ~ 6 years, and were just about on their last legs as servers. Both now sit in this office and are used purely for our mini 'test network', regularly getting either Novell or Linux (or one on each) installed on them whilst we try out a few ideas. Its a miracle they managed as well as they did for so long, being well below the necessary processing demands the ever expanding network placed on them. Off hand one is a dual P2-333 based system, and the other is a dual P2-366 based system, one running NW3.1 the other NW4. Certainly not up to the demands of a 350 pc network with 1000+ students! Thankfully its quite easy to upgrade our NW based network, thanks to the wonderful Novell Directory Services. Create a new server (under a new name, admittedly), set up all the services you need / want on it, and then patch it up to the same standard as the rest of the network. Promote it into the tree and leave it for a few hours to let its NDS sync with the network. Using some handy JRBUtilities, mirror the data folders (complete with rights) onto the new server, change the container scripts and viola, one nicely upgraded network with very little downtime.... for safeties sake though we do our upgrades during holiday periods. We trust our server OS, honest... just not quite enough to do an upgrade at a weekend :-) ----- Paul Graydon Network Technician Haywards Heath College http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281 In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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