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

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Tue Apr 10 20:33:23 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.

Would 66mhz 64bit pci fit the bill?
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_LE/370dle.htm ~$300
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/840/PIIIDME.htm ~$600
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerle_p.html ~$400

Not terribly expensive.

-Dan