Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:32:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Ken Lam <klam@awod.com> Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter Message-ID: <199808222232.PAA05215@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:35:27 EDT." <3.0.3.32.19980822173527.033939f8@awod.com>
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>At 11:08 AM 8/22/98 -0700, Tom wrote: >> >>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). > >Well, Micron's Samurai chipset and the new Intel Server chipset have 64bit >pci. >Not to say that either is supported, or that there are 64bit NIC cards. I've >seen the 64bit pci video, though. All of the gigabit ethernet cards I've seen are 64bit PCI. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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