Date: 03 Mar 2004 16:53:49 +0100 From: Peter A Jonsson <pj@ludd.ltu.se> To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10GbE? Message-ID: <xclad2y7wqa.fsf@dexter.ludd.ltu.se> In-Reply-To: <404581C7.5080602@ai.net> References: <404581C7.5080602@ai.net>
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> 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? CERN has a press release about a speed record at: http://info.web.cern.ch/info/Press/PressReleases/Releases2003/PR15.03ESpeedrecord.html My guess is that the limiting factor is the CPU. > 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?) If you want to run one stream faster than 1 Gbit/s. Depending on network equipment it might not work to load balance one stream over several interfaces. / Peter
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