On 2003.11.03 09:28 Joey Kelly wrote: >... > > Have you considered buying gigabit cards (dunno about fiber; I'm thinking > cat5e stuff) and putting up your own box? I'd bet it's cheaper doing that > than buying a "solution"... although if you're needing a 1U case, that gets > expensive. > > -- > > > Joey Kelly > < Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant > > http://joeykelly.net
Normal PCI is 32 bits at 33MHz. That gives you a max theoretical through put of 1056Mb/s. I suppose it could be done: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=gigabit+iptables This one is interesting: http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2001-July/013294.html Though there are no details, it looks like people have been doing this since 2001 and I saw one from 2000: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0002.1/0091.html Ah, here is good stuff: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/ethernet.html What is this thing for anyway? I get by with my crappy old 10Mbs cards, which are 10 to 20 times faster than my inbound. Oh wait, this is Shannon asking. Shannon, you should be telling me about this!
