[66510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jan 14 22:34:45 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:34:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401142146360.1268-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> o) On a standard PCI but your limit is about 350Mb, you can increase that to a
> couple of Gb using 64-bit fancy thingies
The limit is not megabit/s, it's packet per second (or rather, interrupts
per second). I-mix the average might be 350 megabit/s on a fairly good PC,
but going PCI-X wont help you much there.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
