10GbE?

[Simon]

So you guys do over 1000mbps using Linux servers? or is it just for bragging
rights? and if not the latter, what are these servers serving?

-Simon

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:34:16 -0700 (MST), Diana Eichert wrote:

>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
>
>
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