From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 06:34:19 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 92D8F16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 06:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3483E43D1D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 06:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deichert@wrench.com) Received: from shimi.swcp.com (shimi.swcp.com [198.59.115.14]) by taka.swcp.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i23EYG3e091595 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (deichert@localhost) by shimi.swcp.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA11776 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: shimi.swcp.com: deichert owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert X-Sender: deichert@shimi.swcp.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <404581C7.5080602@ai.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on kaimen.swcp.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.61 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: 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 14:34:19 -0000 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