[48239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat May 25 02:57:08 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:54:29 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3CED637C.5AD925B6@marconi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > True... unless going for 64 bit PCI at 66MHz...
>
> 64/66 PCI has 4 times as much bandwidth - about 4Gbit/s. Much better
> than standard PCI, but hard to find on a PC-compatible motherboard, and
> expensive when you do find it. Enough bandwidth for 10 line-rate 100M
> Ethernet ports or six line-rate OC-3 ports (in theory, anyway). But not
> really enough for anything faster (OC-12 or GigE) if you want line-rate
> forwarding.
Most reputable motherboards (high-end super micros, intel) support 64/66.
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