Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:45:02 -0700 From: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@nas.nasa.gov> To: tom@uniserve.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter Message-ID: <199808241845.LAA00873@ryouko.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Aug 1998 10:41:20 PDT." <199808231741.KAA05988@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Gigabit ethernet is 125MB/s, so would use more of PCI. The only hope is > multiple independant PCI buses (some motherboards already have this). Good luck getting a single x86 CPU to handle the interrupt load of even a single card with the overhead of processing 1500 byte packets at Gigabit speeds... (based on observations of other Gig speed class drivers and NICs I've seen). ;) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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