On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:20:20 +0000, Clive George
wrote:

On 03/02/2016 18:45, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:36:24 +0000, Clive George
wrote:

On 03/02/2016 13:51, T i m wrote:

However, there do seem to be such things offered by the likes of Intel
themselves and to offer high performance but maybe you are right and
it's just a sales exercise (these days)?

You buy them for servers when you need more ports than are on board.
Have a look at a recommended setup for a hypervisor with no single
points of failure. That's the market - it's not a sales exercise.

So, you buy a 'std' card or a 'server' one?

I just get the ones the supplier sells with the server, thus avoiding
problems with people denying responsibility for the things working.

That's not a bad plan, if you aren't building your own etc.

Intel don't appear to sell cards not described as "Server Adapters", so
if you're buying Intel, that is the standard one.

Right, so that doesn't really help us determine if there is a
difference between std desktop and server grade NIC's then.

Unless any other manufacturer still makes both types and if they do
I'd still question the differences?

Cheers, T i m