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Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter
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>   Gigabit ethernet is 125MB/s, so would use more of PCI.  The only hope is
> multiple independant PCI buses (some motherboards already have this).

Good luck getting a single x86 CPU to handle the interrupt load of even
a single card with the overhead of processing 1500 byte packets at
Gigabit speeds...  (based on observations of other Gig speed class
drivers and NICs I've seen).  ;)

Greg


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