Hi there, I have gotten myself into installing some linux boxes as 10GBit/s internet Gateways. The internet connection is delivered as 10GBit/s Ethernet-over-Fibre. The card is in a PCIe 8 Lane slot.
I gather from [1] that 1 Lane is roughly 500 MBit/s. So 8 lanes would give me 4 GBit/s. How on earth could this card do 10GBit/s? What puzzles me is, that the card is a PCIe-8 Card. I could understand if the card would need 16 Lanes, but it does not. Thanks for any enlightenment ;) Conrad [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
