From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 22:16:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AC314EE0 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA92542; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:15:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199903150615.WAA92542@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters Cc: Matthew Dillon , Cory Kempf , Bill Paul , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:02 MST." <36EC9102.119A6973@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:15:14 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh, Don't worry I know that there are people on this list that know the answer that you have suggested --- for instance just take a peek at http://www.juniper.net those guys operate in the giga packet per second range of course if we want to know what they are doing we may have to resort to Mediaval Spanish Inquisition style of interrogation 8) That aside I just bought an NVIDIA Tnt AGP video card with 16MB of memory for $150 I think it has sdram (not sure ) at any rate the next version of Nvidia's chipset based boards are going to have fast sdram probably sub 8 nano second range at least the demo models I read about have them which I read about on Tom's hardware page *http://www.tomshardware.com". Have Fun Guys, Amancio > Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:46:07 -0800 Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > > Not sure what the problem here is . Can a network chipset designer > > > create a chipset with a concept of a program store? The answer is yes > > > , if they chose to implement a sloppy design thats a different issue. > > > > Amancio; How big do you envision the queues on a NIC card need to be > > to handle a moderately loaded, full duplex gigabit ethernet? > > 8 MB of high-speed SDRAM for 2 ports, with hardware queueing support. > I can't tell you how I know this, or I'd have to kill -1 you. ;^) > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message