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Re: Route cache performance under stress

To: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:10:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Ben Greear wrote:

> One waring about e1000's, make sure you have active airflow across the NICs
> if you put two together.  Otherwise, buy a dual port NIC...it has a single
> chip and you will have less cooling issues.

I just took a closer look at my e1000's.  They've got a small RC82540EM
bga chip on them, manufactured 25th week of '02. If these things do get
hot enough to cause problems why wouldn't Intel have them manufactured
with heatsinks attached?

-Ralph

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