From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 20:49:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A4B14E02 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11162; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36EC9102.119A6973@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:02 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Amancio Hasty , Cory Kempf , Bill Paul , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? References: <199903150113.UAA23160@mail.gwi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:46:07 -0800 Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > Not sure what the problem here is . Can a network chipset designer > > create a chipset with a concept of a program store? The answer is yes > > , if they chose to implement a sloppy design thats a different issue. > > Amancio; How big do you envision the queues on a NIC card need to be > to handle a moderately loaded, full duplex gigabit ethernet? 8 MB of high-speed SDRAM for 2 ports, with hardware queueing support. I can't tell you how I know this, or I'd have to kill -1 you. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message