Driver Support for Broadcom 5720 Quad Port

[birdty]

I have an older dell sever R720xd which has a tg3 redhat linux 7.x driver which works with a Broadcom 5720 2 port.
(We used centos 7.x for this card)

But now were upgrading servers and wondering if redhat 9.x driver that support the Boadcom 5720 4 or QUAD port.
Is it the same tg3 driver? because both rhel 9.x and almalinux ( our replacemnt for centos ) 9.4 do.

Does the 4 port device have the same PCI device id as the 2 port?
Does the tg3 drive support both 2 and 4 ports?

Redhat has certified my server hardware, but when I search to see if they certified this card I cannot find it.

I don't want to buy a $6k server I can't return.

Another options was the intel i350 quad port it looks like redhat has certified it ( which means support and that it actually works I assume ) for rhel 9.4

 

[f33dm3bits]

Does this help?

~]$ modinfo tg3
filename:       /lib/modules/5.14.0-427.22.1.el9_4.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.ko.xz
firmware:       tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
firmware:       tigon/tg3_tso.bin
firmware:       tigon/tg3.bin
license:        GPL
description:    Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver
author:         David S. Miller ([email protected]) and Jeff Garzik ([email protected])
rhelversion:    9.4

 

[f33dm3bits]

They still have the Broadcom 5720 2 listed, which was published 2 years ago when RHEL9 was already out.

https://catalog.redhat.com/search?gs&q=Broadcom%205720&searchType=hardware

https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/components/detail/30395

So you would expect if the 2 port is still listed it should still work on RHEL9, then I would expect the 4 port to work as well. If you want to be 100% sure create a Red Hat support ticket and see how they respond.