10GbE?

[Diana Eichert]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:

> 
> http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro10GbE_LR_server_adapter.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+srvradapters_pro10gbe&
> 
> In a PCI-X 133mhz, 64bit slot, it looks like it could get pretty close 
> to saturating a half-duplex connection. The question is, how much CPU 
> would you need to bridge/route one (or a pair) of these guys?
> 
> Can anyone think of a good reason to use one of these things instead of 
> a few 1xGE connections (like a quad port GE card?)
> 
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET

FWIW we have at least 10 of these cards at my day employer for use in some
Linux boxes.  I believe Intel also had a FreeBSD driver for them but I
can't remember for certain.  Here's the link to a paper presented at
SuperComputing2003;
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/paperpdfs/pap293.pdf