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Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:34:00 +0100 (CET)


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


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