FBSD 1GBit router?

Dieter freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Mon Mar 3 06:06:34 UTC 2008


> > Hopefully there will be direct memory bus connected nic's in future. 
> > (HyperTransport connected nic's)
> 
> Well that is going to be an AMD only solution, and I'm not even shure
> that AMD would like to have other things than CPU's on that bus.

There are FPGAs that plug into a CPU socket (for mainboards with
multiple CPU sockets).  There will be GPUs on the HyperTransport bus.
Putting a network controller there seems a tad extreme.


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