From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 27 06:23:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12058 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 06:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12053 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 06:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA03136; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:23:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806271323.JAA03136@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" cc: Chris Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem? References: <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:04:58 +0200." <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:23:21 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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