Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10GbE? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403030728130.11248-100000@shimi.swcp.com> In-Reply-To: <404581C7.5080602@ai.net>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Deepak Jain wrote: > > 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 FWIW we have at least 10 of these cards at my day employer for use in some Linux boxes. I believe Intel also had a FreeBSD driver for them but I can't remember for certain. Here's the link to a paper presented at SuperComputing2003; http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/paperpdfs/pap293.pdf
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