From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 15 7:59:45 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 8CEDF14EEC for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:59:01 -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 IAA12360; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:58:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36ED2E0F.6B0028DB@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:58:07 -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: <199903151352.IAA26873@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 21:48:02 -0700 Wes Peters 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. ;^) > > -- > > Well, good luck Wes; I will be rooting for you and yours. However, I > have been building/tinkering with this kind of router since 1984, and > I don't think it is going to survive in any meaningful way. The > marketing/economic challenges are just too great. Tell that to Alcatel, who just agreed to pay $2 billion for us. > P.S. I hope to be one of your first customers! You're about 5 years too late for that. See http://www.xylan.com/ for the full poop. You'll specifically want to look at the Omni Switch/ Router and the 2-port GSX Gigabit Ethernet card. -- "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