Re: FW: your mail

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Patrick Greenwell wrote: Robert E. Seastrom wrote: RS> 400 mbit/sec seems to be the upper limit of the currently shipping RS> generation of gigE cards for the 7500 series. PG> <scratching head> PG> 400 mbit != 1 gigabit PG> I guess the marketing department wins again.... Calculate the VIP2 PCI bus bandwidth on a 7500. All this means in this context is that this implementation is interoperable with other GIG-E implementations (for some definition of implementation, see CLNS large MTU and jumbo frame issues). The card is limited by the PCI bus. It is still a gig-E board, it just can't go wirespeed. /vijay