I'm thinking on building my own (micro-atx) router for business and personal projects at home.
My question is what kind of network card do I need to receive the fiber optic connection? I'm currently using the router my ISP provides me but I want to replace it.
I've been looking and I can only find super expensive cards (more than 150-250€) and I think those are not the ones I need, so can anyone point me in the right direction?
I will be using a Linux distro with iptables, dhcp, bind, etc...
I have a PCIe (ver 2) linux system. I want to find out how many PCIe lanes were negotiated and are being used between my device and the host controller . (I do not know how many lanes my device supports or how many lanes the slot has)
How can I find out which PCI version (2.0 , 2.3) are supported by the motherboard - even for slots which do not have any cards connected to them.
lspci -vvv does not seem to show information for PCI slots without cards.
Given the fact there are Quad ports PCI/PCI express cards out there, I wonder how many of them (x4) can I plug into a single server?
Perhaps the capacity bottleneck is the PCI bus, but I am not familiar with how to calculate that.
The company I work for just bought 3 PowerEdge 2970 servers and they all have the same problem.
Here is the problem:
1.Power on server. It boots up to the red hat splash screen.
2.In the middle of the boot up the server crashes with the following errors:
-CPU Machine Chk: processor sensor, transition to non-recoverable was asserted
-PCI Parity Err: critical event sensor, PCI PERR (BUS 0 DEVICE 1 FUNC 0)
Then I tried to update the bios and the BMC but the problem was still there. After that I tried to update the OS (it had red hat Enterprise 5.1) to red Hat 5.3 There was something odd there too. I booted the server with the Build and update utility then selected install OS. I selected red hat enterprise 5.3 x86_64. It queried me for the x86_64 media so I put in the disc that said : supplementary disc 1 of 1 for 64-bit AMD64 and Intel 64. It said wrong disc. So then I used the disc that said: installation disc 1 of 1 for 64-bit Intel Itanium. My guess is thats the disc I needed to use all along.
After this the system was able to boot up to the command line login screen. I loggued in and typed : startx to get into the gui environment. At that point less than a page of text scrolled fast and the server crashed without showing anything gui related.
At that point I had at 2 different errors(notice the device is 4 now, gonna check which device it is):
-PCI Parity Err: critical event sensor, PCI PERR (BUS 0 DEVICE 4 FUNC 0)
-PCI Sytem Error:critical event sensor, PCI SERR(BUS 0 DEVICE 4 FUNC 0)
So today the tech guy came with a bunch of parts and basically rebuilt the server (PCI riser, mother board, DIMMs, a SAS card and something else I cant figure off the top of my head)on site but after that the problems were even worse. Some of these errors were(mind you at that point he was putting back some of the original parts so things got messy):
ECC uncorr Err: memory sensor, uncorrectable ECC (DIMM1 DIMM2) was asserted.
E1231 1.2V HT core power GD
E1911 <3 ERRORS check log
E1000 failsafe
Tomorrow he is coming back with a power supply...
UPDATE: Seems like I cant waste anymore time on this. We are calling the sales people and asking for new servers.