Hello Chuck, Thursday, March 28, 2002, 5:29:28 PM, you textually orated:
C> Kinda off topic but this does involve Red Hat 7.2 workstations. Our company C> is moving into a new building with a full gigabit network all the way to the C> desktops. (cat 60 throughout) We are now arguing over whether to spend the C> money to put gig NIC's in everyone's PC.s I was always under the impression C> that a simple single-PCI bus workstation couldn't possibly process 1 gigabit C> of data. Doesn't a single channel PCI bus peg at 132 MB/s? (this is all C> traffic conclusive, not merely traffic from the ethernet slot alone) C> This is an enormous cost as well. We do work with large amounts of data. C> Just wanted to get some other opinions. C> All our servers are gigabit plus they all have dedicate switch ports. That C> makes sense, but a run of the mill Compaq workstation? Well, you have to do the math and remember all the things involved. Standard PCI channel = 32 bits Running at 66Mhz (66,000,000) 32bits * 66,000,000 per sec = 2112000000 bps =~ 2 Gbps 2Gbps > 1Gbps :) So yes a standard PCI bus (@ 66Mhz) can provide enough for a Gigabit Ethernet adapter with room to spare (of course the bus is shared so actual throughput will vary). Have fun, -- _________________________________________________________________ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
