On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Neil Horman wrote: > > Gigabit routing is possible with commodity hardware. It's a software > > problem for the cases that go fast enough currently. > Really? What are PCI bus transfer rates up to these days? I havent > looked into it in quite a while. N3il PCI-X 64/133 is 8.5 gigabits/second. Plenty enough. There are now 10GE adapters from Intel and S2IO that do real-world 6 gigabit across long distance links. Bus is no longer the bottleneck. Ability of CPU to route packets is. -- Alex Pilosov | DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services President | alex@pilosoft.com (800) 710-7031 Pilosoft, Inc. | http://www.pilosoft.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
