S210SHLC s775 mother board USE NIC1 or NIC2 Primary Port

MARKDAVIS Jan 25, 2011 3:11 PM

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Have just installed a new Windows 2008 R2 Foundation server and only in need of a single network connection. Which network port is usually the primary Network Port? Or does it really matter???

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1. Re: S210SHLC s775 mother board USE NIC1 or NIC2 Primary Port

edwardzh Jan 27, 2011 10:02 AM (in response to MARKDAVIS)

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Here are the differences:

NIC1: 82541PI controller using PCI 32bit/33MHz interface. Shared by BMC for IPMI based server management.

NIC2: 82566 PHY using GLCI/LCI interface.

So if you want to use one NIC port for both OS data transfer and IPMI server management, use NIC1. If you're not using IPMI server management, either should work. But you may get better performance on NIC2 due to the difference in PCI interface.
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2. Re: S210SHLC s775 mother board USE NIC1 or NIC2 Primary Port

MARKDAVIS Jan 28, 2011 7:44 AM (in response to edwardzh)

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Yes,

I used the NIC2 Intel Pro/1000 port , it seems to be working just fine.

Thanks for the confirmation
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