[geeks] Nifty NAS board (Atom-based FlexATX from Supermicro)

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com>
" 
" 
" I have two Gigabyte motherboards (EP45-UD3P, and G31M-ES2L), both with  
" Realtek NICs (same chip, 8111C).  Both Solaris 10 (though one is u6  
" patched up to May 15th, the other u7, patched up to May 15th).  Md5sum  
" on the NIC driver is the *same*, so it's not a regression unless the  
" bug is someplace else in the TCP stack.  One is a trooper, holds up  
" fine under heavy network load.  The other falls off the network  
" someplace between 40 and 60GB continuous traffic via ZFS send/recv and  
" can only be brought back with unplumb/plumb (performs poorly  
" thereafter) or via reboot (rinse, repeat).  It's not the hardware,  
" because the same box held up for a 298GB transfer via rsync using a  
" Linux live CD.

random thought: could be a difference in the zfs tools or drivers.  are
the boards similar enough that you could swap hard drives, and see if
the failure tracks the os or the hw?
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