Adding PCIe ethernet card

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  1. connoleg, Feb 16, 2009

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    I want to add a single or dual 100/1000 ethernet card to my macpro 2008 Leopard for virtualisation using VM Fusion. The Apple Dual card retails for £147 here in the UK which seems rather expensive. Do you guys know of other cards that are known to work OK with Leopard 10.5.6?

    Many thanks
     
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  2. yellow, Feb 16, 2009

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  3. connoleg, Feb 17, 2009

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    Does anyone have experience of installing any of these cards?

    TIA
     
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  4. drlunanerd, Feb 17, 2009

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    I wouldn't order from OWC if you're in the UK. Shipping stuff back to them if it's faulty gets expensive as they don't refund your costs.

    Just out of interest - why do you need up to four Ethernet ports? Are you multi-homing your VM(s) plus OS X?
     
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  5. connoleg, Feb 17, 2009

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    not multi-homing but I am consolidating physical machines into VMs one of which is an Astaro ASG Firewall which I want to dedicate two physical nics: LAN & WAN

    I have some info from the vmware site about how to configure extra physical nics but if someone has some real experience of doing similar I would appreciate some help.

    TIA
     
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