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On Mon, 2004-Apr-26 17:21:35 +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
>Well, Sun V60x or 65x will do, they are relabelled Intel OEM boxes, or
>HP 380 G3, nice thing, also quite sturdy.

My experience with an HP DL380 G3 is the opposite - I get random
interrupt storms that wedged the box until I added code to force a
panic if I get more than about 5000 interrupts/sec.  The NICs are
also fairly dodgy at fast-ethernet speed.

Peter