[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am planning to upgrade our 100Mbps bridge to gigabit capable hardware as > our department is getting gigabit conectivity. > What kind of hardware in terms of CPU, RAM, PCI Bus, NIC is recomended to > sustain gigabit speeds. I did read the archives, but could not derive a > baseline requirments.
e1000 is the most solid in my experience. CPU and PCI are the most important -- you'll want a minimum 1GHz CPU, and if you'll be pushing it then you really want a PCI-X motherboard and 64-bit e1000 cards (Intel usually markets these as its "Server" cards). Be careful to have only PCI-X capable cards in your PCI-X slots...legacy cards will force the whole bus to run at 33MHz. bridging doesn't need much ram. If the box isn't doing much else, I don't see why it'd need more than 32 or 64M. Jason _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
