Inquiring minds want to know. CentOS 5 was a while ago, so maybe it's old enough you can talk about it? I would like to but if I go any deeper into that one a

Inquiring minds want to know. CentOS 5 was a while ago, so maybe it's old enough you can talk about it? I would like to but if I go any deeper into that one a certain company will be embarrassed and will respond very poorly. When the day comes that they and their legal entities cease to exist I will share more of the ugly details. I found intel's reputation for stable, reliable NICs to be well deserved. Same here, at least for their server NIC's. I've found that some of their consumer NIC's tend to lean conservative on power management by default and will start having issues negotiating speeds on very long ethernet cable runs to which I have to work around by changing ACPI settings, BIOS settings and sometimes even through a L2 switch at one end. Most of those seem to use the igb driver.