[Click] [OT] - Any suggestions on what hardware to buy?

[Beyers Cronje]

Hi Alastair,

I cant really say much for most of your questions, but one thing that has
caught me out when my motherboard got replaced the other day was support for
the new Mother Board on linux 2.4.  Until that time I was running Click with
polling support happily under linux 2.4.26. When the old MB was replaced
with a new SIS chipset MB I found that the new chipset was not supported on
2.4 kernel and I was forced to run 2.6 with click. So far my experience has
been that certain features of click running under 2.6 kernel is not
funtioning correctly, yet.

So my tip would be, if the new hardware you want to purchase is only
supported under 2.6 kernel, make sure that all the click features you want
to use are running stable with click on 2.6 kernel.

Cheers

Beyers



On 4/21/06, Alastair McKinley <amckinley03 at qub.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Apologies for the slightly off topic question.
>
> I want to run Click on a powerful machine with lots of interfaces
> (10-50, the more the better), and I was hoping that someone here might
> have an idea what to look for.
>
> I guess I want e1000 NICS to support polling.  Can I buy such a beast
> off the shelf or should I build my own?  If I were to build it, what
> would I get to support enough e1000 NICS?
>
> Should I be looking to run multi-threaded Click on SMP?
>
> Again, apologies for the off-topic question.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alastair
>
>
>
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