FBSD 1GBit router?

Ingo Flaschberger if at xip.at
Sun Mar 2 15:57:39 UTC 2008


Dear Barney,

>
> PCIe cards are 1x because the chips are all wired for
> 1x. Intel has a marketing plan. Its not to use low-end
> chips for high-end operations. Intel is just going to
> cannibalized their own business by putting out higher
> performance low-end chips.

really?
the 1 port server chip use only 1 lane
the 2 port server chip use only

Intel® PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter:


>> Today there really is very little reason to use
>> PCI-X instead
>> of PCI-E when one is putting together a brand new
>> system.
>
> the "reason" is that its faster, but its clear that
> you have no
> interest in understanding that, so I'll give up on
> trying to educated you.
> The math is clearly over your head.

I have no problems to saturate 1 gbit desktop pci-e intel card in a
50$ asrock mainboard.
Lets show me that at your pci-x board?

and please read:
http://download.intel.com/design/network/applnots/ap453.pdf

Kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger


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