Is it "OK" to use a low end NIC for a dedicated heart beat between two servers?

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Published on 2010-04-29T08:38:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 8:48 UTC
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I've got nice big server-grade NICs on my servers busy interfaces. Soon I'll be setting up a cluster that will have a dedicated heat-beat.

Do I really need to use an expensive server grade NIC for this? Or will a low-end desktop NIC suffice?

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