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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:16:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        IBS / Andre Oppermann <andre@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980627121610.19432G-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch>

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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote:

> 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...

Then I suppose they would hit the same bottlenecks. :-)


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