From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 27 10:16:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04880 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04875 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19648; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:16:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:16:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: IBS / Andre Oppermann cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem? In-Reply-To: <3594DFEA.EFA2CC9E@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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