From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 22 11:09:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24886 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24881 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zAI5i-0000a5-00; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:08:42 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Andre Oppermann cc: Scott Michel , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter In-Reply-To: <35DED2F1.B646CAA3@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Yep. I wonder if AGP slots can be used for non-video applications? AGP > > has about 4 times the bandwidth of PCI. Of course, you can only have > > on such adapter. > > Even PCI should be enough for two or three cards (155Mbit/s are > 19MByte/s > and PCI can do 130MByte/s, at least on paper). Gigabit ethernet is 125MB/s, so would use more of PCI. The only hope is multiple independant PCI buses (some motherboards already have this). > The problem with APG is that there is only one slot allowed... Apparently not. Apparently AGP is very good for fast network interfaces. > -- > Andre > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message