On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:29:52 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you want to take advantage of > gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely > want a dedicated solution -- the PCI bus just can't keep up. Maybe > there's a solution in PCIe or PCI-X, since they do increase > bandwidth, but I've yet to see a standard PC configured to handle > that much bandwidth. If you have the router between LAN segments at gigabit speeds, and need to route more than 132MB/S worth of data transfer, sure, the PCI bus isn't fast enough. Why you'd need a router anywhere between computers that need to swap this much information is byond me, but your point is i guess sound. good luck finding a PC with 10 pci slots so that you can achieve gigabit speeds on 100-tx hardware ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
