10 Apr
2001
10 Apr
'01
5:56 p.m.
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. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)