Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:19 -0500 From: Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: antik@bsd.ee, koitsu@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp performance with POLLING Message-ID: <48EBD437.4050300@osoft.us> In-Reply-To: <E1KnJYJ-000Hut-1A@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1KnJYJ-000Hut-1A@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Pete French wrote: >> However, ethernet at 100Mbit is 4B5B coded at a 125mhz rate. So the raw >> > > Errr, 4B5B *is* 10 bits per byte surely? > ... > Gig ether is mainly 8B10, as is Firewire, SATA, FibreChannel and a > > Mind you, it assumes that you know the real bit rate, which in the > case of 100baseT is, as you say, actualy 125mbits/sec. > You are right. It definitely is 10 bits per byte clocked at a higher rate. I guess the "100mbit/s" rate is so strongly associated with the technology that I glossed right over that. Joe
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