Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:23:21 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch> Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem? Message-ID: <199806271323.JAA03136@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:04:58 %2B0200." <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626173407.14997A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch>
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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... Uh, not exactly. While they use a PCI bus interface between the port adapter card and the router, there's only that one card on the PCI "bus." The internal architecture is much different. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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