<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 4, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Moeller <<a href="mailto:moeller0@gmx.de" class="">moeller0@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Pete,<br class=""><br class="">I like <a href="https://www.amazon.de/HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-G1610T-SATA-Server/dp/B013UBCHVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509807007&sr=8-1&keywords=hp+proliant+microserver+gen8" class="">https://www.amazon.de/HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-G1610T-SATA-Server/dp/B013UBCHVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509807007&sr=8-1&keywords=hp+proliant+microserver+gen8</a><br class=""><br class="">quite a lot. It comes with 2 ethernet controllers and ports<br class="">03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe<br class="">03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe<br class="">as far as I can tell these support BQL, but I am not 100% sure...<br class="">and will also allow to replace the slightly anemic celeron with a xeon or an i3 or i5, at around 211EUR still a good catch, but a bit on the high side of your list, but it comes with 4GB ecc memory already...<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That looks like a great option. It’s a little more than I’d hoped to spend, but also more than I expected to get for this price.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can I ask, can you tell if it's using the tg3 driver, either with lsmod, or "dmesg | grep -i ethernet”, or “ethtool -i eth0”, or similar? If so, I see BQL support in that code, and it’s listed as having hardware timestamp support for PTP (<a href="http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net" class="">http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net</a>). Looks great...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see a Gen 10 available here for slightly more with the same BCM5720 NIC, and a AMD Opteron X3216 instead, plus 8 gigs of RAM, which I don’t need really, but I can search more for similar hardware: <a href="https://www.alza.cz/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-d5127723.htm?o=1" class="">https://www.alza.cz/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-d5127723.htm?o=1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the tip!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>