In line with Bitt's thoughts, it would be interesting to go to Best Buy and snag a dumb little $80 Netgear gig switch like a GS108 and hook two of the Centos5 machines to it and then run (iperf) back and forth. I don't see any on-line complaints about RHEL5/Centos5/2.6.1x. You'd think that if it were kernel-specific or even Dell-specific, there would be more howling.

I'm interested. I have some hope of loading Centos 5 on a brand new box with Broadcoms on Friday. We'll see
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.