Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:02 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? Message-ID: <36EC9102.119A6973@softweyr.com> References: <199903150113.UAA23160@mail.gwi.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36EC9102.119A6973>