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To: Ken Lam <klam@awod.com>
cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>,
        Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:35:27 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:32:13 -0700
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>At 11:08 AM 8/22/98 -0700, Tom wrote:
>>
>>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).
>
>Well, Micron's Samurai chipset and the new Intel Server chipset have 64bit
>pci.
>Not to say that either is supported, or that there are 64bit NIC cards.  I've
>seen the 64bit pci video, though.

   All of the gigabit ethernet cards I've seen are 64bit PCI.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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