Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980822105300.14968B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <35DED2F1.B646CAA3@pipeline.ch>
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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Yep. I wonder if AGP slots can be used for non-video applications? AGP > > has about 4 times the bandwidth of PCI. Of course, you can only have > > on such adapter. > > Even PCI should be enough for two or three cards (155Mbit/s are > 19MByte/s > and PCI can do 130MByte/s, at least on paper). Gigabit ethernet is 125MB/s, so would use more of PCI. The only hope is multiple independant PCI buses (some motherboards already have this). > The problem with APG is that there is only one slot allowed... Apparently not. Apparently AGP is very good for fast network interfaces. > -- > Andre > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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