Re: The ultimate TOE design

[Wes Felter <wesley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:03:57PM -0500, Wes Felter wrote:
>
> > To do 10 Gbps Ethernet with Jeff's approach, wouldn't you need a 5-10 
> > GHz processor on the card? Sounds expensive.
>
>
> Do you need a 5-10 Ghz Intel server to handle 10 Gbps ethernet?

Yes. (Or a 4-way ~2GHz server.)

When the fastest general-purpose processors cannot handle the fastest 
Ethernet links, putting such a processor on a NIC won't help much. I 
think this is why people are attracted to TOE ASICs, even if that isn't 
the right solution.

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