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Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20

  • From: Richard A. Steenbergen
  • Date: Tue Apr 10 19:06:06 2001 
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> 
> > There is absolutily no (technical) reason that you cannot successfully
> > "route" gigabit ethernet at line rate using off the shelf and extremely
> > cheap PC technology and a bit of clue.
> 
> Yes there is. Cheap = 32bit/33MHz pci today which doesn't have sufficent
> bandwidth for line-rate gigabit forwarding.

Don't be absurd, I can walk into fry's and pick up a motherboard with
64bit/66mhz PCI, some Netgear GA620's, and all the other components for a
1GHz computer for under $1000.

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