Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:35:27 -0400 From: Ken Lam <klam@awod.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, 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: <3.0.3.32.19980822173527.033939f8@awod.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980822105300.14968B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca > References: <35DED2F1.B646CAA3@pipeline.ch>
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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. -k To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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