[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

Saso Kiselkov skiselkov.ml at gmail.com
Thu Dec 26 20:41:18 UTC 2013


On 12/26/13, 8:33 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:27:55 +0000
> Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> If you can get them swapped out, the added benefit will be that igb and
>> ixgbe (the Intel drivers) support fast reboot, so you'll be able to
>> reboot your machine without having to go through the lengthy BIOS boot
>> checks.
> Is this the case for all Intel drivers or are there some Intel drivers
> which does not support fast reboot?

Anything handled e1000g, igb and ixgbe supports it. Don't know if this
covers *all* Intel NICs we support, but these three drivers certainly
handle all Intel NICs available for the R720.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso


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