Intel (ixgb) driver

There has nothing to be done to add the driver. However, it does not seem to work in the defaulr 2.6.8-10-amd64-k8-smp kernel of the Rembrandt nodes. It does work under the 2.6.8.1-web100 kernel, but it regularly crashes the system. With TCP traffic appearently due to a lack of memory.

Hardware Cards

We own two types of network cards:

• pre-release (OEM) cards. These can be recognized by their PCI ID of A11F
• 2003 release cards. These can be recognized by their PCI ID of A01F