One thing that might be happening is a bottleneck at the PCI bus.  I read 
somewhere that if you use 2 100BaseT cards on each end, with each connected 
to a switch so there were no packet collisions on the wire, you could get 
better throughput by channel bonding.  I haven't tried it though.

Jim

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:54 pm, Brett Campbell wrote:
> >
> > So bottleneck is now CPU !
>
> That's totally interesting. Nice little experiment ;-).
>
> (I've generally noticed something similar with the servers on the
> 1Gb/s fiber-optic lan where i work. the bottleneck there seems to
> be the circuitry within the computers themselves; the resistance
> of the electrons on copper is far greater than the photons shooting
> through dark fiber, obviously.)
>
> lion-O


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