From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 22:57:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D36716A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [205.134.163.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7854F43D1F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Received: from ai.net (mikej@pool-151-200-114-38.res.east.verizon.net [151.200.114.38]) by aries.ai.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA17311 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:57:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Message-ID: <404581C7.5080602@ai.net> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 01:57:11 -0500 From: Deepak Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 10GbE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 06:57:17 -0000 http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro10GbE_LR_server_adapter.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+srvradapters_pro10gbe& In a PCI-X 133mhz, 64bit slot, it looks like it could get pretty close to saturating a half-duplex connection. The question is, how much CPU would you need to bridge/route one (or a pair) of these guys? Can anyone think of a good reason to use one of these things instead of a few 1xGE connections (like a quad port GE card?) Deepak Jain AiNET