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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:28:22 +0200
From:      "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <34507846.99E28DE9@pipeline.ch>
References:  <199710240459.VAA29515@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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Jim Shankland wrote:
> 
> > exhausting the PCI bandwidth is very much
> > an issue that's not going to go away with a faster CPU.
> 
> Definitely.  Of course, sooner or later, we'll have PCI-UW or
> something.

Well, we have already a PCI-UW, it's calles 64Bit PCI and nearly
doubles the bandwidth but the card has to support it.

The other way is to add more PCI busses (of course not by a PCI-PCI
bridge). There are some systems out with more than one PCI bus direct
connected to the memory/CPU bus. So its up to CPU and memory bandwidth
(I think the PII can handle up to 400MB/s).

-- 
Andre Oppermann

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