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. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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