Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:04:58 +0200 From: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem? Message-ID: <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626173407.14997A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Chris Dillon wrote: -snip- > As for the "main PCI bus" being the bottleneck, I'm really hoping they > used three host-to-PCI bridges, and not a single host-to-PCI bridge and > two PCI-to-PCI bridges. Even if not, I could push about 100MB/sec across > the bus (assuming the CPU could push that), and thats more than enough > for me. > > I imagine a Cisco of _equal price_ wouldn't even come close to the > throughput I'm going to do. I could be wrong, of course. Even Cisco uses PCI in their routers... -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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