Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:06:47 -0600 | | From | Charles Cazabon <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] ns83820 0.17 |
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Trever L. Adams <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com> wrote: > > Here is my question. A PCI bus, IRC, has about 500 Megabytes/sec of > bandwidth.
Depends. 32-bit 33Mhz PCI is 133MB/s. 64-bit 66MHz PCI is 533MB/s -- those are theoretical, of course. In real life you're not likely to see better than about 90% of those figures, even in ideal cases.
> A full blown gigabit Ethernet stream should be around 133 Megabytes/sec. > Sounds to me like a PC could act easily (As far as bandwidth is concerned) > as a 4 to 5 port gigabit Ethernet router.
If you define PC as "cheap Athlon box with 32-bit, 33MHz PCI bus", then no.
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