10 Apr
2001
10 Apr
'01
5:50 p.m.
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.