Does anyone use this board successfully with Mikrotik?
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/DualCore/E7230/PDSMi.cfm
Dual-port Intel® 82573V Gigabit PCI-Express Ethernet (Tekoa)
1x Universal (SXB-E) Slot for Riser (x1)
[ 1 (x8) PCI-Express Slot ] OR
[ 1x 64-bit PCI-X 133MHz Slot ]White Connector for Compact Flash (CF, 40-pin IDE connector) card only
I also see it has a built on board CF slot (doubling in same port as IDE0?).
Don’t want to buy 2 if the NIC isn’t supported…
Sam
Also, as a side question - does anyone argue that L2 / L3 cache sizes make any bit of difference when running mikrotik? Any reason why a celeron would be any slower running mikrotik than a full p4/d?
Sam
I have been using a super micro system for a few months…
I use 3 of them to link three sites together via VPN.
I link 80 people together and to my remote data center and to a colocation center.
Theise sites are spread over the phoenix area.
(Phoenix airport, downtown, tempe (2 locations))
I usa a “apliance” case from supermicro and supermicro boards.
I cant rememberthe board number at the moment, but they are rock solid.
The only thing I dont like is that they use 2.5" drives.
I will update this post in the AM with the board number..
Oh, The onboard Gig NICS are supported.
Craig
Cache size ALWAYS makes a difference. Cache is however pretty expensive to produce as it runs at the core frequency (L1) or less (L2/L3).
For each lookup missed by the cache you will have a hit for that single instruction that is hundred times the actual time to execute that instruction.
On some architectures you’ll have a penalty closer to a thousand times the instruction execution time.
Just following up on this … never got a straight answer from anyone. Does Mikrotik work with the Intel 82573V? I know SuperMicro works for the most part because I have 3 so far … but I do not see this chip on their supported list. I don’t want to waste a few thousand on superservers that are not compatible with Mikrotik.
I don’t see Intel 82573V (Tekoa) on the list - does anyone have one of these that works? Here is the actual mobo its on:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015M-MR.cfm
Thx,
Sam
Interesting…
Is anyone using any PCI-E motherboard with intel nics on it? I guess many of the newer boards are pci-e and are not working with the older intel driver. All new boards are this way and if the mt driver doesn’t support it then there will be many support requests shortly. No one has a pci-e mobo with intel nics? Please : )
Sam
I use a newer Super Micro with Intel NICs..
It it PCI E. I dont know it the onboards are “E” but htey work ok..
Both are Gig copper…
Craig
Craig,
Can you tell me which 82XXX that chip is on yours? I’m curious if it works although not listed in the mikrotik supported list. Supposedly the intel driver is unified, but with the pci-e ones I think it is required to use their newer build of the driver. If yours is working and its not on the list I’m going to take a chance and order 2 of them from newegg… but being stuck with $2k worth of boxes would suck : )
Thx,
Sam
I will take a look and drop a msg on Mon…
Craig
Craig,
We’re you able to look at your MTs with PCI-E and see what intel chip they are using? This should show up under system - resources.
Thx,
Sam
have not yet.. running arround like a decapitated chicken!!!
Will do ASAP..
Craig
running supermicro p4sct+ with 1 Dual pro1000 server adapter on PCI-X works well . The Intel onboard CSA also gets detected.
I know the PCI-X Intel cards work fine, I am using many of them currently in SuperMicros… but the new PCI-E makes me wonder. I don’t believe the older driver supports these. No one is using PCI-E Intel NICs (onboard)?
Sam
I put a DOM in my Dell which has PCI-E and the nic did not work. I didn’t mess with it all, I just popped in a PCI netgear nic and it worked.
The Dell is a Dimension 9150 with a Dual Core PentiumD 3Ghz CPU. The onboard nic was Intel PRO/1000 PL. Not to sure on the details of the nic.
This is what I was afraid of.
All new Intel NICs are PCI-E pretty much - Mikrotik team - can you update the Intel drivers ?
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/File_Filter.aspx?Filename=e1000-7
Thanks,
Sam
whats the differencce between pci-E and pci-X also i think most mobos have one pci-E only at max but multiple pci-Xs .
“While in theory PCI Express x16 can offer clearly more performance than PCI-X 533 - 8 GB/s compared to 4.26 GB/s”
“This brings us to what PCI Express as a system expansion interface is really all about: not necessarily being faster than PCI-X, but rather being simpler and offering bandwidth to each device separately. Hence there are more and more professional server/workstation class chipsets that put emphasis on PCI Express, because having bandwidth dedicated to each device is appealing.”
The onboard NICs are all going to PCI-e because of performance. Intel will be shipping their first card for pci-e this month, right now its only the onboard NICs using the new chipset from Intel.
Sam