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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:29:52 -0600 |
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"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> if you want to take advantage of |
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> gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely |
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> want a dedicated solution -- the PCI bus just can't keep up. Maybe |
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> there's a solution in PCIe or PCI-X, since they do increase |
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> bandwidth, but I've yet to see a standard PC configured to handle |
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> that much bandwidth. |
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If you have the router between LAN segments at gigabit speeds, and need |
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to route more than 132MB/S worth of data transfer, sure, the PCI bus |
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isn't fast enough. Why you'd need a router anywhere between |
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computers that need to swap this much information is byond me, but your |
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point is i guess sound. good luck finding a PC with 10 pci slots so |
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that you can achieve gigabit speeds on 100-tx hardware ;) |
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