Re: Linux based router for Gigabit traffic

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On 2004.08.23 14:17, Neil Horman wrote:
Really? What are PCI bus transfer rates up to these days? I havent looked into it in quite a while.
N3il

Your average 33mhz PCI bus has a paltry maximum bandwidth of 1 gbps. Full-duplex gigabit routing on more than one interface pretty much requires PCI Express. Here's a little table:
PCI32 33MHz = 133MB/s PCI32 66MHz = 266MB/s PCI64 33MHz = 266MB/s
PCI64 66MHz = 533MB/s
PCI-X 133MHz = 1066MB/s


Also gigabit routing on your average unmodified linux distribution requires a VERY hefty CPU to keep up, even just with two or three gigabit interfaces.
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