From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 20:34:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D848B14F30 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 9097 invoked from network); 16 Apr 1999 03:31:42 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 1999 03:31:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:30:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Brian's Mail Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: 2 or 4 port Ethernet cards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG THere seems to be a math problem here. 132MB/sec appx = 1320Mb/sec, so conceivably, 13 100mbit cards... On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brian's Mail wrote: > The PCI Bus can do 132 MB/sec so in theory the bus can handle 4 100Mb ports. > This would be roughly 50 MB/sec. So it shouldn't matter if there are 4 > seperate cards or a card with four ports, whether or not the card can > sustain that output is the important thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message