Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:57:35 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 1GBit router? Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803021636090.14402@filebunker.xip.at> In-Reply-To: <644693.83415.qm@web63910.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <644693.83415.qm@web63910.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --657920-542942740-1204473456=:14402 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Dear Barney, > > PCIe cards are 1x because the chips are all wired for > 1x. Intel has a marketing plan. Its not to use low-end > chips for high-end operations. Intel is just going to > cannibalized their own business by putting out higher > performance low-end chips. really? the 1 port server chip use only 1 lane the 2 port server chip use only Intel® PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter: >> Today there really is very little reason to use >> PCI-X instead >> of PCI-E when one is putting together a brand new >> system. > > the "reason" is that its faster, but its clear that > you have no > interest in understanding that, so I'll give up on > trying to educated you. > The math is clearly over your head. I have no problems to saturate 1 gbit desktop pci-e intel card in a 50$ asrock mainboard. Lets show me that at your pci-x board? and please read: http://download.intel.com/design/network/applnots/ap453.pdf Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger --657920-542942740-1204473456=:14402--
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