From: Wayne Fay (waynefay@gmail.com)
Date: 08/08/07
You can't change the hardware due to vendor issues.
You can't change the software due to x, y, and z.
You can't virtualize due to previous resistence etc.
What exactly did you expect from us again, other than sympathy? ;-)
Wayne
On 8/8/07, Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> wrote:
> The OS can't be upgraded because on this system because a lot of time and
> effort went into creating the environment that it runs in - it's outdated,
> and a new environment is being created, but we can't do away with this
> system until that's ready. I can give you 100 bad reasons for this, but what
> it boils down to is I'm trying to keep someone else's disaster running until
> I can permanently resolve the issue using the new environment. The
> nic/chipset in question is a matter of what is available from the hardware
> vendor we have a contract with / are tied to for this. As a matter of
> necessity, we are tied to the onboard nic in these servers due to A) having
> to use a 1U form factor and B) having to use an add on RAID card that uses
> the only available slot we could put another NIC in.
>
> As far as using RHEL 2.1, this particular version of 7.3 is hacked to death,
> glibc is upgraded on it, and as per the current environment rebuild, it's
> not worth the time to change anything in the old environment. Virtualizing
> is under consideration, but a previous recommendation to virtualize several
> systems has met with resistance, so it's a last ditch under the table thing
> for me at this point.
>
>
> On 8/8/07, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/7/07, Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We have an entrenched system requiring Redhat 7.3, and the hardware
> needs to
> > > be replaced. The problem is one solution does not work because it uses
> an
> > > intel lan chipset that is not supported by 7.3 - can anyone confirm from
> > > experience whether or not the Broadcom 5704 would work under 7.3?
> > >
> > Why wouldn't you use RHEL 2.1? At least that has support and security
> > updates until 2009. It's the same glibc as 7.2.
> >
> > The best option here is probably to virtualize it with full hw-virt
> > capable hypervisor. (Xen anyone?). This way, the OS won't know it's
> > virtualized, and the HW can be whatever is available to you.
> >
> >
> > stahnma
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