Is the PCI bus wide enough to handle Gbit speeds?
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:">Jhubbs@niit.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:02 PM
To: Patrick; Chris Fowler; ">ale@ale.org
Cc: ">ale@ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Gigabit cards
Well, if your LAN as seen by your desktops is 100base-T all around, what can
you do with your servers if you actually have a lot of desktops (say 1000)
hitting them really hard pretty continuously? There mught be ways you can
channel-bond more than one Fast Ethernet card, but if your switch has or can
have a Gigabit Ethernet uplink, then why not?
A situation that might call for something like this may not be typical, but
certainly not unreasonable (video production house? diskless PCs?).
- Jeff the Unusually Prolific
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:">tewkewl@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:32 PM
> To: Chris Fowler; ">ale@ale.org
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Gigabit cards
>
>
> You can't...It's all a hoax... The only thing the gig card
> allows for is the
> complete anihlattion of your 132mb bus. (if indeed your network it
> operating at peak and can actually pump 132 mb.... the
> technology is there
> to go to a gig....but currently there are no means of getting
> the data to
> the nic at that speed.. Imagine what kind of hard drive it
> would take to
> throw a gig og data out to the network... :p
>
> hehe
>
>
> -Patrick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Fowler ">chrisf@computone.com>
> To: ">ale@ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:16 PM
> Subject: [ale] Gigabit cards
>
>
> > How can I get a gigit through a PCI card when the bus is
> capable of only
> 132
> > megabits?
> >
> > Chris
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