64bit/66MHz PCI mobos (Intel STL2, Asus CUR-DLS)

Keith Underwood keithu at parl.clemson.edu
Tue May 22 18:08:02 PDT 2001


> But for gigE, surely you've got software bandwidth limits far more
> important than the PCI limit?
>
> -- g

Hmmm... I thought I had heard good things out of the 2.4 kernel.  I know
there are some people reporting good things with jumbo frames.  32/33 PCI
is only going to get you 1Gb/s no matter what you do...  You could get the
theoretical 2 Gb/s out of 64/66...

					Keith

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Keith Underwood                   Parallel Architecture Research Lab (PARL)
keithu at parl.clemson.edu                                  Clemson University





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