[36561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Tue Apr 10 19:04:43 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
Cc: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > There is absolutily no (technical) reason that you cannot successfully
> > "route" gigabit ethernet at line rate using off the shelf and extremely
> > cheap PC technology and a bit of clue.
>
> Yes there is. Cheap = 32bit/33MHz pci today which doesn't have sufficent
> bandwidth for line-rate gigabit forwarding.
Don't be absurd, I can walk into fry's and pick up a motherboard with
64bit/66mhz PCI, some Netgear GA620's, and all the other components for a
1GHz computer for under $1000.
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