From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 13:27:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24235 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24228 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:27:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mouth@ibm.net) Received: from slip129-37-195-79.nc.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-195-79.nc.us.ibm.net [129.37.195.79]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA41170; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:27:26 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ethernet traffic, heavy load? Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:28:31 GMT Message-ID: <347ff2f4.4685267@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA24229 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thus, 27 Nov 1997 12:22:47 -0800 (PST), Simon Shapers wrote: >> 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet cards (fxp0 and fxp1) >Reason I ask; we routinely build machines with FOUR of these Intel >cards and they run just fine. SMP included. How much ethernet traffic can you handle in that configuration? I'm interested knowing what to expect before investing in a similar configuration. John