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Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

  • From: Mikael Abrahamsson
  • Date: Wed Jan 14 22:36:20 2004 
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> o) On a standard PCI but your limit is about 350Mb, you can increase that to a 
> couple of Gb using 64-bit fancy thingies

The limit is not megabit/s, it's packet per second (or rather, interrupts 
per second). I-mix the average might be 350 megabit/s on a fairly good PC, 
but going PCI-X wont help you much there.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]