On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:49:04 -0400 Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> wrote:
> Quite simply a general purpose CPU system isn't normally built to > handle network traffic at gigabit rates, especially not from multiple > ports at once. If you really want a line rate gigabit router, you need > custom ASIC to do hardware offload of that work. Several networking
Gigabit routing is possible with commodity hardware. It's a software problem for the cases that go fast enough currently. -
Possible, but only up to 2 gbps. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one full-
duplex gigabit card alone can fill up the entire theoretical maximum bandwidth of the PCI bus, which is only 266MBps.
Four gigabit cards on a normal PCI bus is far more than PCI can handle.
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