Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:54:24 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Diana Eichert" <deichert@wrench.com>, "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10GbE? Message-ID: <20040304065409.53EE243D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403030728130.11248-100000@shimi.swcp.com>
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So you guys do over 1000mbps using Linux servers? or is it just for bragging rights? and if not the latter, what are these servers serving? -Simon On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST), Diana Eichert wrote: >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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