From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 22:54:09 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 C858116A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53EE243D1D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 65112 invoked by uid 110); 4 Mar 2004 06:54:08 -0000 Received: from ool-18baaf5c.dyn.optonline.net (HELO win2kpc1) (24.186.175.92) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 06:54:08 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Diana Eichert" , "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:54:24 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20040304065409.53EE243D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 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: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 06:54:10 -0000 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" >