Your not being a complete ass;) I believe you. I also suspect that you have a highly optimized data path and drivers, probably in cache, and probably not using interupts. I also suspect that you are not saturating it with minimum size (64 byte) packets.
BTW, the numbers I quoted earlier are roughly the same whether I use the FCC ethernets or PCI tulip ethernets. Dean Dayton > Just to be a complete ass a 66MHz MPC885 with two FECs operating as a > virtual switch is able to keep two 100MBits ports fully saturated. So > I think that the hardware can certainly handle it. > > Not under linux though. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/